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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-council@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:29:51
Message-Id: 20081120172945.GA3046@comet
In Reply to: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties by Torsten Veller
1 On 15:19 Thu 20 Nov , Torsten Veller wrote:
2 > * Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>:
3 > > On 13:04 Sun 16 Nov , Torsten Veller wrote:
4 > > > | * Whenever a member of the Council loses their position (the reason is
5 > > > | irrelevant; they could be booted for slacking or they resign or ...), then
6 > > > | the next person in line from the previous Council election is offered the
7 > > > | position. If they decline, it is offered to the next person in line, and so
8 > > > | forth. If they accept and the current Council unanimously accepts the new
9 > > > | person, they get the position with a 'reduced' term such that the yearly
10 > > > | elections still elect a full group. If the Council does not accept that
11 > > > | person, then a new election is held to choose a new member.
12 > > > <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20070208-summary.txt>
13 > > >
14 > > > So your options are:
15 > > > - Change the rules once again. Because you can.
16 > > > - Follow the rules.
17 > >
18 > > Try thinking about this from a different perspective: What is best for
19 > > Gentoo? If the rules are broken, they should get fixed instead of
20 > > blindly followed.
21 >
22 > That looks like a topic for today's council meeting, doesn't it?
23
24 It sure does. Thanks for making that explicitly clear, Torsten!
25
26 --
27 Thanks,
28 Donnie
29
30 Donnie Berkholz
31 Developer, Gentoo Linux
32 Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com