Re: [gentoo-project] Meeting agenda - Council meeting 2018-04-08

[Rich Freeman]

On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
>
> I would like to apologize for this harmful generalization. Not all
> Trustees in the history of Foundation were incompetent. In particular,
> it is worth noting that Robin H. Johnson has put a significant effort
> in improving the tax situation, and Daniel Campbell had his contribution
> too.
>

Honestly, I think would be helpful if everybody tries to
de-personalize this discussion.

I think it makes the most sense to figure out what kind of
meta-structure we want, without regard to the titles individuals are
currently holding.  We can always hold an election to re-sort people
(old or new) into the new roles (IMO this should be done if we make
any major changes, precisely because we DON'T want to design roles
with named individuals in mind).

I think the question should be what kind of design is sustainable.

I do think that the skills we have to work with should be fair game in
a discussion.  We're mostly programmers/sysadmins/enthusiasts, and
lawyers are pretty rare in the community.  I do think that our
metastructure would benefit from emphasizing the skills our community
actually has.  We could also hire in skills we don't have, and I don't
have an issue with that, but again in that case we need to be mindful
of our current cash flow.  It doesn't make sense to adopt the
metastructure appropriate for a company with a $50M annual budget when
we operate on a small fraction of this.

However, all of this can be done without smearing those serving in
various roles today.  IMO most genuinely are trying to do what they
think is best for the distro, and I doubt most would have been elected
if a lot of people didn't share that sentiment.

-- 
Rich