Re: [gentoo-project] [GLEP 39 overhaul] Voting by email, proxies and slacker rule.

[Roy Bamford]

On 2010.04.18 00:46, Denis Dupeyron wrote:
> During the last council meeting we discussed voting by email, see the
> log at [1]. What should we do about proxies if we make that happen?
> What's the impact on the slacker rule?
>
> [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20100308.txt
>
>
>

Team,

I have some strong views on voting by email.

1. Voting by email should be encouraged. This allows things to be 
resolved on the mailing lists and never come to a council meeting.
It speeds the workflow and it therefore a good thing.

2. Voting by email in advance, on a topic to be *discussed* at a 
meeting should not be permitted. In the event that the discussion 
turns up something unexpected, there is no opportunity to vote in the 
light of the new information. That further discussion is deemed to be 
required, shows that not all the evidence is in and the council is not 
ready to vote.

For the sake of clarity, if its just to announce a decision with no 
opportunity for discussion, an email vote in advance of the 
announcement is fine.

3. email votes post discussion/meeting are fine. This allows GLEP39 to 
be updated to remove both slacker marks and proxies which van only be a 
good thing.

Its perfectly possible for a member to serve properly on the council 
and never show up to a meeting. With the span of time zones with the 
current council, its already difficult for them to find a time to meet 
and email voting would ease the pressure.

I trust the council to eject one of their own that was not pulling his/
her weight if they did not resign their post when they realised they 
could not carry it out. In turn, that allows all the slacker driven 
elections to be dropped.

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Regards,

Roy Bamford
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