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From: Torsten Veller <tove@g.o>
To: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:39
Message-Id: 20081120151336.TA069d0.tv@veller.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties by Donnie Berkholz
1 * Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>:
2 > On 13:04 Sun 16 Nov , Torsten Veller wrote:
3 > > | * Whenever a member of the Council loses their position (the reason is
4 > > | irrelevant; they could be booted for slacking or they resign or ...), then
5 > > | the next person in line from the previous Council election is offered the
6 > > | position. If they decline, it is offered to the next person in line, and so
7 > > | forth. If they accept and the current Council unanimously accepts the new
8 > > | person, they get the position with a 'reduced' term such that the yearly
9 > > | elections still elect a full group. If the Council does not accept that
10 > > | person, then a new election is held to choose a new member.
11 > > <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20070208-summary.txt>
12 > >
13 > > So your options are:
14 > > - Change the rules once again. Because you can.
15 > > - Follow the rules.
16 >
17 > Try thinking about this from a different perspective: What is best for
18 > Gentoo? If the rules are broken, they should get fixed instead of
19 > blindly followed.
20
21 That looks like a topic for today's council meeting, doesn't it?

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Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>