Re: [gentoo-dev] Jun 11th, 2009 Council Meeting Format

[Andrew D Kirch]

Doug Goldstein wrote:
> All,
>
> The current council meetings have gotten completely out of hand for
> weeks meetings have become nothing more then a continuation of the
> senseless bicker-fest that have become the e-mail threads on GLEP54,
> GLEP55, and EAPI-3 without any real progress or sense coming of them.
> It's taken me a little bit to step up and put a stop to it but I fully
> intend on putting a stop to it. The point of the council meetings is
> to bring up a topic and decide on its merits whether it should be
> brought into the Gentoo Project or not. I quote from the first line of
> the Gentoo Council website:
I would strongly advice that EAPI-3 and GLEP's 54/55 be dropped at least
for the time being (at a minimum 90 days).  The argument has left any
trappings of merit or rational behind, and has replaced them with
religion.  As this is now a dogmatic issue a resolution cannot be
reached at this time.
>
> We have all collectively failed the Gentoo Project since we have not
> been doing this for the past several weeks.

Vigorous debate fails no one.  Religious zealotry however fails us all. 
In recognizing that this is what's happening iwth EAPI-3, and GLEP's
54/55 is the first step towards moving on to a new and fair debate on
these issues down the road.

Andrew