Gentoo Archives: gentoo-project

From: "William L. Thomson Jr." <wltjr@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Special meeting [WAS: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008]
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 22:09:04
Message-Id: 1210889339.22194.77.camel@wlt.obsidian-studios.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Special meeting [WAS: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008] by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 23:02 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 >
3 > Also for those not aware... The reason for the slacker clauses was that
4 > prior to that, Gentoo was managed by a rather bizarrely selected group
5 > of individuals (effectively, hardened and infra had representatives, the
6 > tree didn't, for example) who mostly communicated via a closed mailing
7 > list and who were quite happy disappearing for months on end and only
8 > showing up when one of their pet irrelevant causes was under discussion.
9
10 Do those reason still stand? Or has there been enough history of other
11 behavior and more diverse councils operating in the public since then?
12
13 Almost seems like we might need to revisit this. I am not saying I mind
14 harshness, when due. But seems there is to little room for mistakes.
15 First mistake, and all are gone.
16
17 If we need to take it to a global vote, then so be it. Seems like a vote
18 is coming either way :)
19
20 --
21 William L. Thomson Jr.
22 amd64/Java/Trustees
23 Gentoo Foundation

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