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On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:34:24 +0100
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
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> On Sun, 18 May 2008 17:30:26 +0200 |
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> "Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > it might have been better to document it as 'The Council's |
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> > > Constitution' or somesuch... |
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> > True. On the other hand it was written as a GLEP. |
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> No it wasn't. If all you have to offer is deliberate lies like this, |
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> please stay out of it. |
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> -- |
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> Ciaran McCreesh |
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Let me try to express this slightly differently. And I was around when
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we voted on the various proposals for the rules for Council, and I did
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vote for the one which later became GLEP 39.
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We did not vote on it as a GLEP to accept or reject. We had an
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"election" following normal voting procedures on dev.gentoo.org, and
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this was the winner from among several. I don't recall how the policy
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chosen by the community was transformed into the form of a GLEP, and I
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don't know that it matters much. If you are curious, both Grant and
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Ciaran can answer (and doubtless a few others, both developers and
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interested bystanders).
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Thus, what is now GLEP 39 represents the developers' views of the
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appropriate rules for Council to follow at the time of the vote (which
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was some time in 2005, I believe). Since then, it's been sitting there
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for all to read, and no one has ever felt the need to propose changes.
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So, either people don't care about policies for Council (which does not
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seem to be the case) or no one has ever seen any problems in the policy
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requiring changes. This makes it a bit puzzling why it's a big deal
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when something comes up which activates a clause in the policy (when
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the requirement affects Council itself. After all, this entire policy
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tells us the rules for how Council works. That's what it's about.)
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- --
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel, Userrel, Trustees)
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