Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-04-08

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:38 PM, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote:
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> On Mon, Apr  2, 2018, at 20:01 CDT, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote:
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>>>  - overruling council (and comrel?) decisions with a 2:1 majority
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>> While I could see this making sense for most Council/QA decisions, I'm
>> skeptical of how this could work for Comrel, given that nobody would
>> have anything to go off of, unless we made these matters public.
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> Good point. Let me remove the (and comrel?) from my suggestion.
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My intent wasn't to squelch it or anything - just to point out that it
really is a different sort of issue.

Maybe the right way to look at is that people-oriented decisions are
different than other sorts of decisions.  So, either make them two
separate GLEPs (assuming we want both parts), or two parts of one
GLEP, or whatever.  But, if you separate the Comrel bits then the more
straightforward (and still fairly extensive) idea you have can go
through the process without being held up.  Then put Comrel on its own
track if desired, and when it is discussed/debated you can focus on it
and not beat around the busy with everything else.

Also, we might or might not want to pattern this off of the Foundation
bylaws for direct actions by members.  That said, as with most such
documents, the bylaws are basically written to satisfy legal
requirements but they make such actions VERY difficult to achieve.

One other practical note.  Unless something has changed I believe our
elections system allows only one election at a time.  If we
anticipating having a lot of these general resolutions that could
become limiting unless voting periods are shortened.

-- 
Rich