Gentoo Archives: gentoo-council

From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Voting procedure
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:59:00
Message-Id: 20090122005858.GH15870@comet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Voting procedure by Ferris McCormick
1 On 00:42 Thu 22 Jan , Ferris McCormick wrote:
2 > On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:45:27 -0800
3 > Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On 14:01 Thu 08 Jan , Tiziano Müller wrote:
6 > > > So far we've introduced the _reopen_nominations person in the last vote
7 > > > and it didn't change a lot. But there are more questions:
8 > > >
9 > > > Does there always have to be 7 council members?
10 > >
11 > > No. I think we should set 7 to be the maximum though -- big meetings get
12 > > unwieldy.
13 > >
14 > > > If not, should there be a minimum?
15 > >
16 > > No. Gentoo developers can decide how they want to be led.
17 > >
18 >
19 > So, zero is OK and so no Council at all? Or one?
20
21 I think zero means you wouldn't have a council, so you'd violate GLEP
22 39. One would be allowable, although I'd be awfully surprised if it ever
23 happened.
24
25 --
26 Thanks,
27 Donnie
28
29 Donnie Berkholz
30 Developer, Gentoo Linux
31 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com