[ros-dev] Re: TC function description: Call for vote

[Brian]

Im not a member of the team, i know, but it seems that there is
starting to become an aulful lot of politics involved with the
project. I didn't think that ReactOS was that big already...

On 11/1/05, Ge van Geldorp <gvg at reactos.org> wrote:
> > From: Alex Ionescu
> >
> > I agree with everything, including removing "The TC has final
> > say over the priority of a bug." which caused all this, but
> > is it really right to remove:
> >
> > "By his election, the developers have agreed to trust in his
> > judgement related to bug priorities"? It would seem to me
> > like that's a given. It doesn't represent any grant of power,
> > just states the obvious. We're voting for Foo as TC because
> > we trust he'll be a good TC.
>
> If it's a given and obvious, there's no reason to put it in? The problem
> with the sentence is that it can be read to imply that the TCs decisions in
> this regard cannot be overridden by a developers vote. Since it didn't seem
> to add anything but could be misinterpreted, the simplest solution was to
> just drop it.
>
> > Addtionally:
> > "must not hinder any legitimate efforts that the TC is
> > attempting in order to prioritize bugs." is also not an
> > adtional grant of power, but simply specifies that if the TC
> > thinks Bug XXX is low priority, a developer (i'm talking
> > about one, not a majority) shouldn't constantly raise it back
> > to BLOCKER just because he feels this is very important to
> > him. I think this is also normal curteous behaviour...
>
> Royce pointed out
> (http://www.reactos.org/archives/public/ros-dev/2005-October/005779.html)
> that "legitimate" isn't very precise. Again, since it doesn't add anything
> (the TC is given administrative control over the Bugzilla installation in
> the previous paragraph) I dropped it.
>
> GvG
>
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