Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2019-04-14

[Aaron Bauman]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 09:28:07AM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-04-10 at 15:27 +0900, Alice Ferrazzi wrote:
> > The 04/10/2019 07:59, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >
> > I propose foundation to vote for add the use of pseudonym in the GLEP 76.
> > For keeping Gentoo a confortable and inclusive place.
> >
>
> If Foundation decides to arbitrarily change a policy that's been
> initially approved both by Council and Foundation, then I propose that
> the Council rejects changes to the policy and blocks such contributions.
>
> Furthermore, I will propose that we actively pursue removing Foundation
> from Gentoo as apparently Trustees once again are trying to abuse
> the power that they've only gotten because nobody else wanted to take
> legal risk from negligence of previous Boards.
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>

I don't know why there is so much animosity towards the foundation from
you.  No one said we would change the policy.  Given the past record of
both bodies working together... it is shallow to think we would do so
anyway.  Can we just stop the stupidity? I, personally, would just like
to do the job of a trustee and support the distribution.  You know, let
the council handle the technical things and let the foundation do the
legal and money...

We get it... many don't want the Foundation.  Regardless, some body will
step in anyway and implement the same sets of rules.  As mentioned many
times on this thread... there is precedent against allowing pseudonyms.
Furthermore, anyone who has said otherwise has yet to produce real world
use cases of such a thing being allowed.  The exception (which I have
validated) is Debian.  Of course, the person still needs to "reveal"
themselves to the legal entity.  Of course, I don't think this will
stand in a court of law anyhow.

Let's all just work together and perform our individual functions.

-- 
Cheers,
Aaron