Re: [gentoo-project] Social Contract clean-up

[Alec Warner]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 8:39 PM, Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:15 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Wouldn't it make sense to have these assigned to the council?
>>
>> GLEP 39 states that "Global issues will be decided by an elected
>> Gentoo Council."  Surely the social contract is a global issue, and I
>> don't see any exception in GLEP 39 pertaining to the social contract
>> specifically
>
>
> No -- it's a trustee issue. GLEP 39 is not written very well and is not
> explicit in what it means by "global issues", but in context it is pretty
> clear the Council is meant to address project-related problems that
> bothered ciaranm and g2boojum at the time, thus technical problems, and
> "global issues" are technical issues that span multiple projects.
>
> And if you look at the definition of trustee responsibilities, "Oversee
> Adherence to the Social Contract" is one of them. This includes overseeing
> the Social Contract itself.
>

I actually thought this too, but sadly its not in the Bylaws[1].

Instead its just in some text about the Foundation[2].

[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Bylaws
[2]
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Main_Page#Trustee_Responsibilities


>
> -Daniel
>