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On 10/13/2016 02:17 PM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:16:48AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 6:30 PM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> TL;DR: move comrel, infra, PR to Foundation. Have strict(er) application |
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>>> of policies to them in line with their powers. |
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>> 1. I don't think we ought to be giving more power to the Foundation |
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>> until the Foundation membership is re-aligned with the distro |
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>> developer membership. We essentially have two democratic |
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>> organizations with overlapping but different constituencies, and I'm |
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>> not sure Gentoo could survive if they start trying to pull the distro |
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>> in different directions since the community seems like it is barely |
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>> above critical mass as it is. |
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> Should we amend the bylaws such that all active developers are |
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> automatically members of the Foundation, without specifically applying? |
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> Thereafter, on developer retirement, failing to cast a vote in two |
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> consecutive elections will end their membership. |
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> Non-developers can still apply as before. |
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The problem with this is that the current bylaws states that we need |
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quorum (defined as 1/3 turnout) to have a valid vote. If we don't |
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require voting we might loose that. (unless we want to do away with that) |
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