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Hello folks, |
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Looking through the Council project page, the policy regarding the inactive |
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council members doesn't look optimal to me |
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"To ensure that the council stays active, the chosen metastructure model says |
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that if a council member (or their appointed proxy) fails to show up for two |
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consecutive meetings, they are marked as a slacker." |
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So the attendance to council meetings is enough to prove that a member is |
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active? 0_o |
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How about the participation to the discussions which took place every day on |
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our mailing lists or in IRC? I guess not since we need to explicitly bring |
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each issue to the meeting so council can talk about it. So it is ok to discuss |
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and decide on a topic without knowning all the previous discussion which took |
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place on the mailing list. Because I really doubt that *all* council members |
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are reading the mailing list in daily basis so they get to know everything |
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that is going on to Gentoo. |
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The role of the council is the following one: |
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"The elected Gentoo Council decides on global issues and policies that affect |
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multiple projects in Gentoo" |
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I am not sure that everybody is aware of the councils' role. The only council |
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members who look active to me are Petteri and Denis. We miss 5 more people but |
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I am pretty sure they will be present to the next meeting hence they will be |
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considered as "active members". This is why the current policy looks wrong to |
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me. |
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A stricter rule should apply and clearly define when a council members is |
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slacking and hence it has to be substituted immediately. Council is the core |
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project of Gentoo ( at least it should be ) and it cannot afford inactive |
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members. |
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And because talk is cheap and we already burned our keyboards out the last few |
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days here is my proposal: |
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A council member is inactive when: |
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1) He is inactive in critical discussions ( such as the whole Phoenix |
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discussion ) for a certain period of time |
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2) Fails to accomplish his role by supervising the Gentoo projects. Remember |
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we have plenty of Gentoo projects nearly dead and there is no way for us to |
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participate since contacting the project leaders is a no-go. Indirect |
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question: Is the council aware of the status of all projects? Shouldn't it be |
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since he is responsible for them? |
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3) Fails to attend the meetings. But this should be the last proof of their |
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activity |
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4) ... |
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If a council member is declared "inactive" then it will be substituted by the |
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next non-elected member. |
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Please, tell me exactly what does the "global issues and policies that affect |
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multiple projects in Gentoo" means. What is your current role and ? It seems |
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quite abstract to me so I am requesting you to elaborate. |
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I feel sorry to admit that the current council failed to become a good leader |
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for Gentoo and his inactivity demotivates both users and developers[1][2] [ |
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etc etc ] |
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[1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-822041.html |
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[2] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo- |
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dev/msg_bc884b5ec61a159a6c15323b2a67965c.xml |
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang) |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org |