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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:28:10AM +0000, Duncan wrote: |
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> > I think you missed one thing. From the council page: "Only Gentoo |
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> > developers may be nominated" Thus your corner-case of a moderator that |
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> > does nothing else wanting to become a council member is not valid, |
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> > because the moderator is not a developer, if he were, he would be doing |
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> > other things as well. |
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> It's possible I read the conclusions incorrectly, but I thought that |
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> global forum moderators were made full Gentoo staff, and that, save for |
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> the practical distinction of "tree dev" vs. not, the terms "Gentoo dev" |
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> and "Gentoo staff" were interchangeable. That's at least part of what I |
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> referred to with the mention of possible restriction I wasn't aware of, |
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> as I wasn't positive about staff status, but if it's correct, then at |
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> least in theory global mods could indeed run for council. |
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> If it's not correct, that they are staff and /not/ devs, therefore /not/ |
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> eligible for council, then I've misunderstood. Apologies for the noise. |
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Somebody else more intimately familiar with the meta-structure documents |
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would be better suited to answer this one than me - reading those |
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instead of the council page, I cannot tell one way or another if they |
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are or are not able to run for the council (but it could also be that |
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it's 02h40 and I'm really tired and still stuck on work stuff). |
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Robin Hugh Johnson |
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Gentoo Linux Developer & Council Member |
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E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
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