Gentoo Archives: gentoo-council

From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Council meeting summary of July 20th 2009
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:58:13
Message-Id: 4A6DF86D.4060004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Council meeting summary of July 20th 2009 by Ned Ludd
1 Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 19:06 -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 >> On 23:54 Fri 24 Jul , Denis Dupeyron wrote:
4 >>> The log and summary of Monday's council meeting (July 20th 2009) are
5 >>> now available on the council project page at:
6 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/
7 >> 3. GLEP 39
8 >>
9 >> 3.1. Can the council decide on the process of voting amendments to GLEP 39
10 >> without an all-developers vote?
11 >> > No: betelgeuse, dertobi123, solar, ulm.
12 >> > Yes: calchan, leio.
13 >>
14 >>
15 >> I'd like some clarification here. GLEP 39 has already been amended by
16 >> the council [1]. Are you declaring those modifications illegal and thus
17 >> reverted? If so, this is retroactive because it changes the past and
18 >> removes powers that were assumed by previous councils. Are you voting to
19 >> remove powers the council previously had? If so, isn't that in itself an
20 >> amendment of GLEP 39?
21 >>
22 >> 1. http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/glep/glep-0039.html?r1=1.2&r2=1.3
23 >
24 > My personal take on it. Is rather that we mostly all agree the council
25 > does not have the power to modify GLEP-39 as is. If the previous
26 > councils altered GLEP-39 and there are no challenges to it, then I don't
27 > think the existing one is going to revert those changes (more so if we
28 > admit that the existing one should leave it alone)
29 >
30
31 I also think that we were voting about how GLEP 39 is as it currently
32 stands.
33
34 Regards,
35 Petteri

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