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From: Christopher Sawtell <csawtell@××××××××××××.nz>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:32:22
Message-Id: 200704060029.22471.csawtell@paradise.net.nz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April by Wernfried Haas
1 On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:09:12 Wernfried Haas wrote:
2 > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
3 > > Unfortunately, what the GLEP doesn't do is prevent the Council from
4 > > having secret meetings and refusing to discuss not only the content of
5 > > those meetings but even the topic. Perhaps a requirement that any
6 > > Council meeting logs be made public would be useful, with a waiver
7 > > that the Council can have a secret meeting if it officially announces
8 > > that it is doing so?
9 >
10 > If they want to have sekrit meetings with sekrit handshakes, let
11 > them. If enough people think this is not acceptable, they'll be gone
12 > on the next election.
13
14 If Gentoo goes all political and ties itself up in hundreds of rules,
15 regulations, and miles of the proverbial red tape it will cease to be
16 effective, and become a fork target to be effectively taken over by
17 somebody or other with superiour people and technical skills.
18
19 Don't the names Debian, Shuttleworth, and Ubuntu ring bells?
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