Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals

[Roy Bamford]

On 2018.02.13 00:13, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:40 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org>
> wrote:
> > On 12/02/18 23:02, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >> Can you provide us with an example when such a scenario has
> happened
> >> in the past 12 years of council, or is the above purely
> hypothetical?
> >> Because in the latter case it is not an actual problem that needs
> to
> >> be solved.
> >>
> >> It is not a game of Nomic that we're playing here, but we are
> trying
> >> to run a distro. IMHO precluding council members from participating
> in
> >> projects isn't helpful. Or do we really want a council that is
> sitting
> >> in an ivory tower, completely detached from the daily distro work?
> >>
> > Uhm, what's the difference .. the council already live in their own
> land
> > separate from most of the developers, and definitely from the user
> > community at large ?
> >
> > Or at least, such is the perception .. [don't shoot the messenger
> and
> > all that]
> >
>
> Such is your perception.  Most developers just cast their votes, and
> hence the same council members keep getting re-elected.  I doubt that
> would happen if most developers considered them aloof, especially
> since the Council has always attracted a significant number of
> election candidates.
>
> You can't judge something like this by mailing list posts.
>
> --
> Rich
>
>

Rich,

Most developers don't cast their votes.  
2015-16  The turnout for this election was 30.638.
2016-17  The turnout for this election was 37.190%

Thats from email I happen to have to hand.
From memory, those two data points are typical.
 
-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
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