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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Should DevRel members be in Council?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 14:43:29
Message-Id: 4E47DEC7.9030605@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Should DevRel members be in Council? by Markos Chandras
1 On 14.08.2011 17:11, Markos Chandras wrote:
2 > On 08/14/2011 03:05 PM, Petteri Räty wrote:
3 >> On 14.08.2011 16:42, Markos Chandras wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>>> So lets try with an example:
6 >>>
7 >>>> A dev wants to join the Sunrise project and i as the lead say no
8 >>>> to him.
9 >>>
10 >>>> This means, both 1 and 2 are already done, 3 does not seem
11 >>>> reasonable to me, since it looks unlikely to me, that DevRel
12 >>>> could/should force a team to accept a new member, which would end
13 >>>> with the last point. And if both sides keep their point, council
14 >>>> could either force his addition, which will usually mean, that
15 >>>> the team lead leaves or accept the decision of the team lead.
16 >>>
17 >>>
18 >>> I don't think Council is eligible to force this. The council is
19 >>> not supposed to interfere with how teams operate.
20 >>>
21 >
22 >> The precedent is that Council can rule whatever it wants besides
23 >> changing GLEP 39. Of course in a volunteer project some might never
24 >> get executed. Changing eligibility rules for the council requires a
25 >> change to GLEP 39 so it's not something we can vote on in the next
26 >> meeting.
27 >
28 >> Regards, Petteri
29 >
30 >
31 > Fair enough. I was pretty sure that the Council was not supposed to
32 > instruct projects how to operate. But anyway, this is irrelevant to the
33 > initial discussion.
34 >
35
36 I think Tommy presented a valid question but you are just missing the
37 point. DevRel is just a body that is more likely to do decisions that
38 are doing to be appealed to the council.
39
40 Regards,
41 Petteri

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