On 07:53 Thu 12 Feb     , Tiziano Müller wrote:
> That's true. But just deciding that we need people to discuss it and 
> then not fostering that discussion ourselves actively is not 
> acceptable. Once we get the task to take care of a matter we have to 
> take care of it until it's done completely. This involves bringing the 
> subject up on the mailinglist (and not just publish the summary and 
> wait for people to read through it and then start a discussion 
> depending on what they may find in the summary), get the information 
> we need to be able to decide somewhere else, etc.
> 
> Why don't we assign each task to one of us council members to do that, 
> so we get for every task someone who's taking care of it, making sure 
> it gets on the agenda again, maybe even preparing a summary of the 
> matter for the rest of the council (in complicated cases), posting on 
> the mailing-list, commenting on the corresponding bug, etc.? I guess 
> that's what Ciaran meant in the "Secretary"-Thread.

I agree that it's a great idea to assign someone responsibility for 
following up, and I think that the person who brings up the topic is 
best qualified and motivated to do so. I don't see any reason to require 
it to be a council member.

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Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com