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From: Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation membership and who can join
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:45:37
Message-Id: 40838d7f-9c91-6074-4df8-5d053d6ace52@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Foundation membership and who can join by Rich Freeman
1 On 14/10/16 10:35 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:17 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
3 >> On 14/10/16 08:43 AM, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>>
5 >>> [...] two different pools of voters (Foundation members and
6 >>> "Developers" (which today includes anybody with an @g.o address even
7 >>> if they don't have commit access - the proposal splits that into Staff
8 >>> and Developers)
9 >>
10 >>
11 >> By definition #1, if you're a dev then you're staff; staff is a
12 >> superset of dev but there's no separation there based on the
13 >> definitions listed. There needs to be a classification for
14 >> non-staff-dev if a dev loses foundation membership due to the
15 >> staff<->foundation hard coupling and whatever rules there are that
16 >> revokes foundation membership and therefore staff status, but can
17 >> still remain a dev.
18 >>
19 >> OR, don't couple dev to staff so that devs have a different (sub)set
20 >> of rules regarding foundation membership revocation.
21 >
22 > My intent is that anybody who ceases to be a Foundation member also
23 > loses membership in staff, dev, and loses commit access.
24 >
25 > Again, the point is to keep Foundation membership strictly in-line
26 > with what are currently today developers. This means that the same
27 > people who vote for Council also vote for the Trustees. (Today staff
28 > are also considered developers and do vote for the Council.)
29
30
31 Excellent. *THIS* makes things very clear.
32
33 Now, I forsee there being some push-back from a dev losing their
34 gentoo-repo commit rights if they abstain from voting in two
35 (consecutive?) Foundation elections....but that's a separate issue
36 that can be addressed on its own.

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