Re: [gentoo-project] Social Contract clean-up

[Daniel Robbins]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 7:30 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 9:14 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
> (klondike) <klondike@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > If you cvs annotate the index.xml file for the Gentoo Foundation on the
> > old documentation CVS you'll find that such line was added by Corey
> > Shields (cshields) on the first edition of the project page itself,
> > revision 1.1 made on 26-March-2005 before GLEP-39 existed. According to
> > that same page Corey was one of the members of the Board of the
> Foundation.
> >
>
> Well, that answers the first half of the question then.
>

Council is related to technical leadership, inter-project technical issues
and issues impacting development, which can include disciplinary issues.

Trustees look out for the long-term health of the project. This includes
legal matters, social contract, and quite a few other things.

I resigned after the initial trustees were appointed. It appears that the
initial trustees had challenges making decisions and leading the project.
However, while they might have been relatively "weak" and had very limited
scope in practice (most likely due to being overwhelmed with their new
responsibilities, learning to run a NFP, etc.which has a very high learning
curve,) that does not mean that the trustees were intended to be passive in
regards to the direction of the project. Non-technical issues that are
large in scope should by default go to the trustees for direction.

Best,

Daniel