Gentoo Archives: gentoo-council

From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Cc: Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o>, gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Meeting format
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:01:28
Message-Id: 4A532B09.101@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-council] Meeting format by Ned Ludd
1 Ned Ludd wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 18:52 -0600, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
3 >> We should also get rid of both the slacker rule and proxies. They're
4 >> good examples of over-engineering.
5 >
6 > This is not within the councils power to get rid of. The users voted for
7 > GLEP-39 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0039.html which states
8 > our requirements. Should it not be up to them to change it?
9
10 So we could just use votify to ask if they are ok to remove them or not.
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12 > Re: Best times for meetings..
13 > Ok so I generally am employed from the hours of 9-5 M-F PST (GMT-7). The
14 > company I work for can have official meetings any day of the week any
15 > hour of the day with not much more than an hours notice. I've been in
16 > the meeting/council channel for over 5 years now. So I clearly have an
17 > interest in what we are doing as a meta distribution, but If I'm unable
18 > to make a meeting and it's scheduled in the time-frame of my work hours
19 > then I can guaranty nothing. It's more likely that I'd have to be in/out
20 > for the duration of the meeting. If proxy is required then I'd call for
21 > a semi perm proxy of the next in line on the vote rankings. At least
22 > till it causes a personal conflict of interest.
23
24 Ok...
25
26 > We can vote on the +m/+v thing if you want to make it official. But it
27 > seems we had a general consensus from everybody that this is what would
28 > be best.
29
30 Well, to make it simpler we could just reply in this thread, I'm in favor.
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32 lu
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36 Luca Barbato
37 Gentoo Council Member
38 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
39 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero