Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Summary for 15 March 2007 special council meeting on CoC

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:35:00AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> * "If you perceive a breach of the Code of Conduct guidelines, let the
> proctors know."  How?  The council's email address is given for appeals,
> but no general proctor address is listed. (At least none that I saw, even
> after searching, so if it's there, it needs to be made rather more
> prominent.)  proctors@g.o a reasonable alias?  Mentioning it right
> after the above quoted sentence should work, I think.
There isn't one yet, but proctors@ or reporting on BugZilla will
probably work fine as soon as kingtaco and kloeri actually get the
initial proctors together.

> *  "To prevent conflicts of interest, Council members may not perform the
> duties of a proctor."  Great!  There is however one potential problem, if
> the summary post suggestion making current forum mods and etc proctors by
> default becomes policy.
I think you might have misread this, kloeri and kingtaco were going to
look amongst the #gentoo ops, and the forums moderators for initial
proctors, and seemant and g2boojum for the mailing lists. Who they are
is not yet set at all, just that those are some of the initial
candidates.

>  That is, global mods have status as Gentoo
> staff, and if I'm not mistaken (it's possible there's a restriction I'm
> not aware of), nothing until now has prevented them from running for
> council if they decided to.  The implication here is that mods, as
> proctors, are forbidden from being council members (unless they give up
> their mod status, but if that's their only or single major role in
> Gentoo, that's asking them to do /nothing/ but be a council member during
> their council term, if elected).  Was that really intended?  Perhaps it
> was, but if not, maybe a clause enumerating that exception and specifying
> that they simply abstain due to conflict of interest (possibly with a
> designated participating in proctor decisions in their place, how is such
> alternative chosen?) should be proposed for addition.
I think you missed one thing. From the council page:
"Only Gentoo developers may be nominated"
Thus your corner-case of a moderator that does nothing else wanting to
become a council member is not valid, because the moderator is not a
developer, if he were, he would be doing other things as well.

> *  Building on the designated alternative idea, what about altering GLEP
[snip complexity]
> of interest.
See the 20060914 council meeting where we discussed conflicts of
interest and reached the conclusion that we should act professionally
(and impartially) if possible, and abstain from a matter if that was not
possible (example in the meeting was kloeri being the lead of devrel).

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Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member
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