Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations for council

[Richard Freeman]

Duncan wrote:
> Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> posted
> 20080603222620.71c89a1e@×××××××××××××××××.ca, excerpted below, on  Tue, 03
> Jun 2008 22:26:20 -0600:
>
>> AFAIR nominating has always been open to anyone, dev and user alike.
>
> Which does make sense.  Giving the community nomination power gives them
> some input, while limiting the actual power and damage potential, since
> they can't vote on their nominees, only devs do.  As with any nominee, if
> the devs don't like them, they simply vote for someone else.  No harm
> done unless the devs consent to it.
>

Agreed, but since there is a trend towards taking everything literally 
these days I do want to point out that this opens up a DoS attack - you 
could end up with a ballot 40 miles long if people use throwaway email 
addresses to make and second and accept nominations.

Normally I'd just assume that if this were to happen common sense would 
prevail and these nominations would be excluded, but since there is a 
trend towards policy-trumps-sense perhaps the policy should be that 
anybody can nominate, but only devs can second a nomination?  After all, 
if not even one dev supports a nomination what is the point of putting 
it on a ballot that only devs vote on?  We could call the policy 
G:ACNBDMS (Gentoo: Anybody can nominate but devs must second) in tribute 
to another project where ability to quote policy is becoming more 
important than ability to add value...  :)
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