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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2021-05-09
Date: Mon, 03 May 2021 14:31:53
Message-Id: YJAJVEffPy9wMgku@linux1.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2021-05-09 by "Michał Górny"
1 On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 12:39:21PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 11:15 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 > > > > > > > On Mon, 03 May 2021, Michał Górny wrote:
4 > >
5 > > > On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 22:22 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
6 > > > > The way I see it is, if the council wants funding for something
7 > > > > they
8 > > > > can request it from the foundation, but I don't think they can
9 > > > > direct
10 > > > > the foundation not to fund something someone else requests.
11 > > > >
12 > > > > Also, given Antarus' response in the thread, I'm not sure there is
13 > > > > anything for council to discuss.
14 > >
15 > > > Does 'being not sure' authorize you to arbitrarily decide to skip
16 > > > agenda items from the community?
17 > >
18 > > I don't read William's reponse in such a way. The Council can still
19 > > discuss the issue, and the Foundation may or may not listen.
20 > >
21 > > Ultimately it is up to them how they want to spend their money.
22 > > I believe that part is clear.
23 >
24 > However the response is to be read, there's no item for this
25 > in the agenda. So it's pretty much a single Council member individually
26 > deciding what Council discusses or not.
27
28 You know that in the past some things that have come up on the call for agenda
29 items thread have not ended up on the agenda.
30
31 As was already said, any discussion we do around this doesn't really
32 matter since we do not control financial issues for the distro.
33
34 William

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