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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:34:48
Message-Id: 20110809173429.GF25611@comet.mayo.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years by Fabian Groffen
1 On 19:25 Tue 09 Aug , Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 09-08-2011 09:05:31 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
3 > > Let's assume the following scenario:
4 > >
5 > > The developer base only wants 3 people on the council and disagrees with
6 > > the views of the other 4. But since 7 are required to be on it, they
7 > > must vote for 7 or get stuck in an infinite loop of reopening
8 > > nominations. The undesired 4 people could block the other 3 from
9 > > proposing any changes to GLEP 39.
10 >
11 > If the developer base wants that, it's probably not hard to find 7
12 > people to run for council and get elected, isn't it? I don't see the
13 > block here.
14
15 The whole point is the ridiculous idea of this difference between a
16 "community-pushed" GLEP 39 change and one promoted by a group of devs
17 who happen to have a council member leading them.
18
19 --
20 Thanks,
21 Donnie
22
23 Donnie Berkholz
24 Council Member / Sr. Developer
25 Gentoo Linux
26 Blog: http://dberkholz.com