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On 02/25/2010 09:42 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: |
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> In a few words here is the problem. Is it a good idea to allow council |
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> members to vote by email when they're not able to make it to the |
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> meeting? |
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How the council wants to run itself should really be up to each council |
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- the devs elected them, and I'm not sure we really need a GLSA/etc to |
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govern how it operates beyond the general charter. |
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Personally, I've found that board meetings tend to work best when |
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they're just formalizations of decisions that have already been made. |
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If an item needs discussion, then it should be discussed, and probably |
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not voted unless there is a rush (since in theory everybody should think |
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about it and maybe allow for general dev input). If an item needs |
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voting, then it should be voted, and not discussed (since discussion |
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should have taken place on lists/etc). |
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Of course, in a crisis you just do what needs to be done, and chances |
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are you're not in a scheduled meeting anyway. |
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If somebody wants to convince the council of something, they're best off |
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writing up a concise argument and sending it to the list. Some items |
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are complex enough to require interactive discussion, but in that case |
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time should be set aside for it, and there shouldn't necessarily be an |
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expectation that a vote take place immediately afterwards. If somebody |
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wants to just read the irc logs and email in a vote later, I'm not sure |
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that really is an abdication of responsibility. |
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With gentoo spanning so many timezones, and with the desire to have |
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exceptional people as leaders, we do need to recognize that it isn't |
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always possible for people to be in-person at meetings. If we really |
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want "the best" to lead gentoo, then we need to recognize that these |
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sorts of people often have a lot of other things going on as well, and |
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making a meeting at 10AM on a work day, or 3AM on a weekend, or whatever |
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might not always be possible. We really need to make the most of tools |
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like email/forums/etc and when we are meeting in-person we should treat |
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that time as being very precious. |
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Just some thoughts - every team needs to work out the rules they work |
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best under. I wouldn't expect every council to work in the same way as |
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the current one, and if people leave and join the current council needs |
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to take into account whether it needs to change. |
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Rich |