Gentoo Archives: gentoo-nfp

From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-nfp@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Agenda item: Formalize Gentoo's org structure
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 19:41:55
Message-Id: 1523389307.936.16.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-nfp] Agenda item: Formalize Gentoo's org structure by Matthew Thode
1 W dniu wto, 10.04.2018 o godzinie 14∶39 -0500, użytkownik Matthew Thode
2 napisał:
3 > On 18-04-10 21:23:26, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > > W dniu wto, 10.04.2018 o godzinie 12∶47 -0500, użytkownik Matthew Thode
5 > > napisał:
6 > > > On 18-04-10 19:28:11, Michał Górny wrote:
7 > > > > W dniu pon, 09.04.2018 o godzinie 12∶50 -0500, użytkownik Matthew Thode
8 > > > > napisał:
9 > > > > > On 18-04-09 18:57:27, Michał Górny wrote:
10 > > > > > > But let's get to the details.
11 > > > > > >
12 > > > > > > Your proposal -- once again -- makes Trustees the highest-level
13 > > > > > > governing body of Gentoo and reduces Council to technical matters. This
14 > > > > > > is against GLEP 39 which clearly states that Council is responsible for
15 > > > > > > all global decisions and as far as I'm aware is the most recent policy
16 > > > > > > defining the role of Council. Unless you have a strong reason to
17 > > > > > > believe that this policy has been illegally forced upon Gentoo, you are
18 > > > > > > not 'formalizing' anything but attempting to change well-established
19 > > > > > > metastructure and outright lying to the community that the current state
20 > > > > > > is undefined.
21 > > > > > >
22 > > > > > > I believe that Trustees can't be the highest governing body of Gentoo
23 > > > > > > for a number of reasons. I will enumerate those I can think of below:
24 > > > > > >
25 > > > > >
26 > > > > > GLEP 39 is not legally binding. This proposal would make glep 39 need
27 > > > > > changes (mainly that there would be a governing body above council). At
28 > > > > > that point glep 39 could possibly be made into a bylaw.
29 > > > >
30 > > > > Are you saying that Trustees do not have to respect the result of vote
31 > > > > done among all Gentoo developers?
32 > > >
33 > > > The trustees are beholden to those that elected them, namely the
34 > > > foundation membership, while many of them are developers, some are not.
35 > > > So, no, we do not have to respect a result of those that are not our
36 > > > members.
37 > >
38 > > What is your claim, exactly? Are you saying that back in 2005
39 > > the Foundation members and developers were disjoint the way they are
40 > > today? Or are you claiming that Trustees don't have to respect old
41 > > rules because they have accepted additional non-developer members
42 > > afterwards?
43 > >
44 > > According to LDAP, you have joined Gentoo in 2011. GLEP 39 was
45 > > effective already back then, and unless your recruitment was much
46 > > different from mine (2010), you should've been taught about it. So why
47 > > the sudden surprise about it?
48 > >
49 >
50 > The Trustees are responsible to those that elected them (Foundation
51 > members).
52 > I as a Gentoo Developer should respect GLEP 39.
53 > I as a Gentoo Trustee do not need to respect GLEP 39.
54 > These are different roles. I think selinux did role based behavior well.
55 > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Role-based_access_control
56 >
57
58 Does that mean that I as Gentoo Developer does not have to respect
59 the decisions made by Trustees? In that case I suppose all we have to
60 do is leave the Foundation.
61
62
63 --
64 Best regards,
65 Michał Górny

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-nfp] Agenda item: Formalize Gentoo's org structure Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-nfp] Agenda item: Formalize Gentoo's org structure Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org>