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Roy, |
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> Gentoo is not a real democracy. The elected council have just had their |
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> mandate created - they have not even met once yet. |
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> Let them use it. |
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> Most developers won't care. Look at the turnout for the council |
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> election. |
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> Developers that do care can lobby the council prior to any vote then |
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> council can vote taking into account any lobbying. |
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> Lets not pretend that we can keep everyone happy - we are all wise |
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> enough to know thats not true, so lets not even try and lets not put |
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> any more effort into fixing the slackers and proxies parts of GLEP 39 |
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> than we really need to. |
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> The difference is between the mathematical precision of a referendum |
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> and being close enough for all practical purposes. |
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I totally agree with all of this. I proposed the unanimity rule |
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because I know some council members strongly think that any change to |
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GLEP39 requires a vote by all developers. And I figured they might be |
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willing to accept a unanimous council decision instead. Now, if they |
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can be convinced that a super- or simple majority vote is enough then |
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I'm all for it. |
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On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Roy Bamford<neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> The council were elected to look after the engineering side of Gentoo |
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Here's a common misconception I'd like to clear. Nothing in GLEP39 |
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limits the council's responsibility to the engineering side of Gentoo. |
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On the contrary, GLEP39 deals mostly with project management and |
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organization, developer activity, discipline, etc... However, the |
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successive councils slowly shifted to be mostly technical, if not |
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only. I have a theory as to why this happened, but it really doesn't |
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matter. I would very much like to fix that during this term because |
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not only does GLEP39 imply that the council should care about |
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non-technical aspects, but I'm of the opinion that if it doesn't |
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happen we'll be slowly rotting. I will be sending more propositions |
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about this to this list in the coming days/weeks. The first step is |
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deciding how we can amend GLEP39 though. |
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Denis. |