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Next topic on the (long) list: how do we go about amending GLEP39? |
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This is by the way a blocker for part of the previous discussion about |
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meeting format, i.e. getting rid of proxies and slacker mark. |
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I will keep my opinion for myself until later in order to not bias the |
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discussion. I will try and present the facts as I see them but as |
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neutrally as possible. This is the result of lots of discussions with |
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lots of yous. Feel free to add to this, I'm not going to pretend I've |
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heard it all. |
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There are various schools of thought here, and we can divide them |
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using mainly two axes. |
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One is about whether we can actually modify GLEP39 or not. Some think |
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that GLEP39 is so fundamental that it can't be changed, period. A less |
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extremist faction think that although it can't be changed we can |
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decide to write another and switch to it if enough of the right people |
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agree (TBD, see below). And then there's those who think that GLEP39 |
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can be amended under the right conditions (see below again). |
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The other axis is about how we agree we can amend GLEP39 or switch to |
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an entirely different text. Some think that as long as GLEP39 was |
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voted by the whole dev population, in order to change it we need all |
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devs to vote the change. Some others think that the whole point of |
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electing a council is about delegating your vote and making the |
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maneuvering of this large ship that Gentoo is a lot easier than if we |
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had to resort to all-devs vote for everything. The required majority |
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for each alternative (all devs vote, or council members only) is a |
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detail right now, but will need to be discussed at some point. |
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Then there's a sub-axis. In the case we allow the council members to |
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vote on GLEP39 changes to make things easier, would it be the same if |
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we were to switch from GLEP39 to a completely different text or would |
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this require an all-devs vote? And even in the case we're only |
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changing GLEP39, how major can the change be before we have to go back |
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to the whole dev population? Because it's certainly possible to change |
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GLEP39 to such an extent that it becomes an entirely different thing. |
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Can we actually quantify how big a change is? |
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There's one last group: those who don't care but will find an angle in |
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the above to make personal attacks. Please don't. |
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Denis. |