On Saturday, June 11, 2011 15:18:09 Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Jorge Manuel B S Vicetto wrote:
> > please re-read GLEP48 as I updated it at the end of the council
> > meeting to reflect the changes already approved on March (txt
> > version, I still need to update the html).
> > 
> > The GLEP states that the team lead shall be elected annually by the
> > team members.
> 
> The same GLEP also says that developers who would like to join the
> project must be approved by the QA team lead. And seemingly the QA
> lead also has the power to expel devs from the team (I cannot find
> where this is documented though).

i dont recall this ever coming up, so there would need to be a GLEP update i 
imagine in order to make this happen

> So, effectively the QA team lead can appoint the people who elect him.
> I'm not at all implying that Diego would abuse his position, but still
> I think that this is not a sane situation.

it does seem trivial to remove people who disagree with you and thus cement an 
echo chamber
-mike