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On Thu, 13 Jul 2017 09:05:23 +0100 Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> > Why stop at five when the Council consists of seven members? Three |
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> > seats |
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> > changed for 2017-2018. I took the time to dig up past election results |
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> > and indicated the change between each year. [1, also attached] The |
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> > last |
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> > time 3 or more seats changed was in the 2013-2014 election. To me, |
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> > that's significant enough to claim that there is movement within |
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> > Gentoo, |
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> > especially considering last year's election had no change in seats. |
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> > Before that (2015-2016) was 2 seats, and before that (2014-2015), only |
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> > one. |
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> > |
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> > [1]: https://dev.gentoo.org/~zlg/election-results.txt |
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> > -- |
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> > Daniel Campbell - Gentoo Developer |
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> > OpenPGP Key: 0x1EA055D6 @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net |
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> > fpr: AE03 9064 AE00 053C 270C 1DE4 6F7A 9091 1EA0 55D6 |
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> > |
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> |
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> Daniel, |
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> A better measure of change might be incumbants unseated. |
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> For example, this year rich0 and blueness did not stand for |
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> reelection, so its not an indicator of change that they were |
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> not reelected. |
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The sheer fact that they do not accept nominations induces a |
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change. Yes, reasons for this change is different: acting council |
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members want to step off for their own reasons, but nevertheless |
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this brings new people and a change. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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