Re: [gentoo-project] Formally have Foundation oversee top level projects 1.1

[Rich Freeman]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote:
>
> 1) Write down what you do not like.
> 2) Hold a meeting of members
> 2a) In order for the members to meet you must:
> 2b) Convince 10% of members to request a "Special Meeting" (Article III
> section 3.3) in writing (I suspect you could get away with email here.)
> 2c) Announce the meeting 10 days in advance (Article III section 3.4)
> 2d) Convince at least 1/3rd of the voting membership to show up (to reach a
> quorum of members at said special meeting.)
> 2e) The Special meeting would occur; you would propose a vote to remove
> trustees (one or all). If you have a majority of members at the special
> meeting, you can vote there. If you don't, you can propose the vote be
> electronic and pronounce a schedule. Its a special meeting and a special
> vote, so parameters have some leeway in terms of scheduling.
> 2f) Convince at least "a majority of the members entitled to vote" to
> approve the removal of the tainted trustees.
> 3) Now you have removed 1 or more trustees. Congrats!
> 4) You need to elect new trustees now though.
>

Yeah, this is never going to happen.  The process exists this way
mainly to prevent it from ever actually being used, perhaps in a
hostile manner.  No doubt it would be tried, but this is a very high
bar to clear.

If a really serious dispute erupts then either there will be a lot of
delaying tactics until the next election and passive-aggressive
actions (people ignore instructions from trustees until they spend
tens of thousands of dollars fighting it in court until the foundation
is bankrupt between the expenses and everybody withholding donations
and bugging sponsors to do the same), or everybody just changes the
name of the distro and starts from scratch.

Obviously this is not likely to actually happen, but I just wanted to
comment on the in-feasibility of actually using the formal process.

-- 
Rich