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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Groups under the Council or Foundation: the structure & processes thereof
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:33:32
Message-Id: f9d571d7-6c08-9b90-7c60-7d86156802d6@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Groups under the Council or Foundation: the structure & processes thereof by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 On 13/10/2016 01:30, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
2 > TL;DR: move comrel, infra, PR to Foundation. Have strict(er)
3 > application of policies to them in line with their powers.
4
5 The foundation was made only to collect and redistribute money. In order
6 to do that it was made sort of copyright collector as well (but that was
7 actively blocked by the fact the EU law prevents that).
8
9 In short and sweet summary:
10
11 - The Council was made to be the team leading Gentoo, we have elections
12 for that reason.
13 - Recruitment should get new wonderful people as Developers, either by
14 inviting them or by vetting them.
15 - Comrel is offloading from the council the management of conflicts
16 between developers. Incidentally it had to manage also troublemakers,
17 creeps, and other horrible people that the recruitment process failed to
18 recognize as such (luckily happened really few times).
19 - Q/A is offloading from the council the management of day-by-day
20 technical issues and possibly prevent people not so skilled from destroy
21 systems.
22 - Foundation should just care of money on behalf of the council and not
23 interfere with the community.
24
25 Giving the Foundation more power than act as financial operations is a
26 quite bad idea to me.
27
28 lu

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