Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo: growing pains & the future.

[Petteri Räty]

On 18.6.2013 16.59, hasufell wrote:
> On 06/18/2013 03:47 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote:
>> On 06/18/2013 09:15 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013
>> 14:55:40 +0200 hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:
>>>>> A tiny idea to improve the council just came to my mind: 1-2
>>>>> representatives of the user community should be voted in. IMO
>>>>> there are a enough well known personalities in #gentoo,
>>>>> #gentoo-chat, from the forums or elsewhere.
>> The last time something like that was tried, we ended up with a
>> bunch of non-Gentoo-using prolific Off The Wall posters being
>> selected. That didn't exactly work out well.
>
>> -- Ciaran McCreesh
>
>> I was going to caution against this too.  I've had similar
>> experiences on college committees where faculty invited students to
>> participate. They really didn't understand the issues and wasted
>> our time with non-sequitors.  It was probably equally frustrating
>> to them because they tried but could not contribute.  I understand
>> that some contributors are more active than some devs, but how
>> would the process differentiate?
>
>
>
> That proposal cannot stand alone. Please respond to the concept I was
> pointing out, not a single point.
>

As voting has meant everyone with access on dev.gentoo.org, it follows
that in the context of GLEP 39 the term developers includes staffers who
don't have gentoo-x86 access. As such, if the users strongly wish to run
for council they can just take the staff quiz with the sole purpose of
running for council.

Regards,
Petteri