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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Should DevRel members be in Council?
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:04:51
Message-Id: 20110816182817.GA30214@linux1
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Should DevRel members be in Council? by Markos Chandras
1 Hi,
2
3 On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:12:32PM +0100, Markos Chandras wrote:
4 > Quite a few of you know that Council acts as a court in case a developer
5 > has unresolved disputes with Devrel or when he is not happy with a
6 > Devrel's decision. The problem is that having the same people in the
7 > Council and in Devrel makes no sense since the same people will vote
8 > twice on that matter. A developer who wants to appeal to Council, seeks
9 > a review of his case and a fresh voting from new people. However, having
10 > devrel members, which are already biased based on the previous decision,
11 > makes the "Council's court role" a moot role :)
12
13 It definitely does create a conflict of interest.
14
15 I think there are a couple of ways to handle it:
16
17 1) don't allow council members to be in devrel, or
18 2) don't allow council members who are also in devrel to vote in
19 appeals.
20
21 What does everyone think?
22
23 William

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