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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 20:21:26
Message-Id: 20070404201717.GB25883@feynman.corp.halliburton.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April by Alexandre Buisse
1 Alexandre Buisse wrote: [Wed Apr 04 2007, 02:36:43PM CDT]
2 > I won't take this to the council myself, but I think this should be
3 > discussed at the very least: we need a way to limit the council power,
4 > since it seems there is nothing to this effect in the metastructure
5 > glep.
6
7 For what it's worth, I deliberately wrote the GLEP that way. The
8 truth of the matter is that the Council has only whatever power the
9 devs permit, so adding additional restrictions seems like a really bad
10 idea to me.
11
12 > I think that when members of the council, who have total control
13 > on gentoo, say things like "I don't feel we should listen to what the
14 > dev community thinks", then one should begin to worry.
15
16 Someone actually said that?
17
18 In any event, Gentoo is a community project. If you can convince
19 enough of the community that you're right, and the Council is wrong,
20 then the Council is extremely likely to listen. If they don't, vote
21 out the bums.
22
23 -g2boojum-
24 --
25 Grant Goodyear
26 Gentoo Developer
27 g2boojum@g.o
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April Matti Bickel <mabi@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April Alexandre Buisse <nattfodd@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for April Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>