[gentoo-council] Re: Nominations open for 1 council slot

[Torsten Veller]

* Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o>:
> On R, 2008-11-28 at 18:55 +0530, Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> > I would like to nominate Mart Raudsepp (leio@g.o).
>
> After investigating on the reasons of why this is an election instead of
> picking the next in line, I found out that is so because the correction
> to GLEP39 decided says that to be the procedure:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20070208-summary.txt
> The acceptance didn't seem to be unanimous due to some council members
> preferring an election to be hold for the spot, therefore an election is
> held.
>
> In that spirit, as the second in line based on the full election in
> summer, I accept the nomination with the same platform[1] except for the
> last three lines talking about GUADEC, as they are obviously out of date
> now.

You will soon find this in the meeting logs:

20:25 <@dberkholz>
  i'm not opposed to dev-zero per se, but i think we've already gone too far 
  down the list. as i mentioned on the -council mailing list, more people 
  would have nominated themselves had they thought that not enough good 
  potential members were already there.
[...]
20:30 <@dertobi123>
  dberkholz: *shrugs* ... we're still in the upper half of the list, 
  compared with the 2007 list i don't get where we're going to go too far 
  down.
[...]
20:32 <@dberkholz>
  dertobi123: you can also consider this a test of the voting system to 
  actually get things done fast enough so it doesn't delay council activity 
  at all.
[...]
20:33 <@dertobi123>
  dberkholz: i could, but i don't see why we shouldn't follow the steps 
  which worked in the past few years
[...]
20:34 <@dberkholz>
  dertobi123: because 5 of the council members would rather do something 
  else. =)