On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 12:13 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote: > Nice idea, but for me that sounds like a pre-election promise to lower > taxes or like big and rich politicians handling out food in a soup > kitchen or a: It will help a few people and gives good press because > it's popular, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem at all. In > fact it's even worse, because time gets wasted instead of solving the > underlying or other problems (that might be bigger or smaller). I don't think I'm up for election this time round, and I hope it didn't come across that way. I'm always prepared to be held accountable for my views and actions; I'm not really known for playing politics :) As for asking about it in meetings -- I just meant that as a means of encouraging/reminding people to actually _do_ it, because an empty statement that we _intend_ to do such reviews is fairly pointless if we then just forget about it. I certainly didn't mean it as some kind of measure by which FESCo members' performance would be measured. You're right; there are much better things for people to be looking at when election time comes round. I do think that my proposal would help to improve the underlying problem, although of course I'm prepared to be persuaded otherwise -- and it was, after all, just a suggestion. By getting FESCo members more involved in reviews, we should help to raise the profile of package review and set a good example; hopefully others will also follow suit. And it should mean that some of the existing proposals for making reviews run smoother would get a little bit more attention too, and thus get pushed through to reality. As well as directly making a small dent in the backlog, of course -- but that 'direct' effect is minimal, and not really the point. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx Intel Corporation -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
