[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck

[Florence Devouard]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
>> How should the devs know which communities have an
>> Arbcom that needs to approve the bug?  I think any
>> system put in here needs to, by default, not interfere
>> with the devs doing their work.  Giving communities
>> more opportunities to raise a flag before
>> implementaion is good.  But requiring the devs check
>> with X before every implementation, or any process
>> external to Bugzilla, is bad.
> 
> The devs only make these kind of changes if someone asks them to, so
> if the rule is made that only ArbComs (or crats/admins if there is no
> ArbCom) can make such requests then the devs don't have to check with
> anyone, they just have to verify that the person asking really is a
> member of the project's ArbCom, which isn't that difficult. It's
> certainly easier than trying to work out if there's a consensus for
> the change.

As far as I know, it is not a role of the arbcom to do such things. It 
looks weird to add new responsibilities.


Ant