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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Social Contract clean-up
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 09:12:37
Message-Id: 23227.23677.480269.995092@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Social Contract clean-up by Daniel Robbins
1 >>>>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2018, Daniel Robbins wrote:
2
3 >>> The trustees, as a whole, have complete authority over the project,
4 >>> and have the ability and legal authority to remove Council members
5 >>> that they may feel are a threat to the long-term stability of
6 >>> the project.
7
8 Council and trustees are independently elected bodies, so there is no
9 hierarchy between them. Especially, the only way to remove a council
10 member is by election (or by slacker mark). GLEP 39 is very clear
11 there.
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13 > No, you are misrepresenting the actual authority of Trustees. They
14 > have actual, real authority over the project as opposed to imagined
15 > authority that you seem to appeal to.
16
17 Good luck with exercising that authority over developers who are all
18 volunteers. :)
19
20 Ulrich

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