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On 19.06.2020 22:25, Roy Bamford wrote: |
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> Team, |
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> Its been my impression that this last years council has had a fairly |
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> easy life compared to previous years. |
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> Some context ... |
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> The council is now 15 years old. Some concepts were worked out |
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> over a few beers at FOSDEM 2005, formalised over the next six |
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> months and the first council met in quarter 4 2005. |
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> I have memories of the council being set up as a disputes |
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> resolution body, not a leadership body but that was 15 years ago. |
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Last dispute council had to deal with was in March '17. |
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I remember, because accusation was directed towards me in particular. |
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That said, I would not call it disputes body (at least not anymore). |
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I apologize for what may seem as misinformation on my side, |
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but as I am involved in another "disputes" body I can not memorize nor |
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find anything going through the appeal process after this specified time |
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span. |
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> Some questions ... |
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> 1. What do candidates see the councils role as in Gentoo today? |
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We currently may see the model of fairly minimal community involvement. |
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Yes, monthly meetings, but with minimal efforts. Fellow developers may |
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object - |
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no agenda items, and as a result no activity. I beg to differ. Council |
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should not be |
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asked to review anything, it must create its own agenda, based on the |
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community |
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demands, and existing problems (for sure any council member must be |
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able to identify these problems first). |
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I have an honor of working with some of the |
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long term (and not only) council members in other distro areas. Gladly |
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they also |
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admit, that problems "to solve" exist, and we solve them together |
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(at least the ones I am collaborating with on daily basis). |
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> 2. How do candidates see the role of the Gentoo council |
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> changing in the short term .. say the next few years? |
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This only depends on the council members themselves. If what I have |
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described above will be going on for the next few years I am afraid council, |
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as an entity, may fade into obscurity (potentially reformed). |
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> 3. Why is this role change required? |
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Because currently we may see, that council has very little cohesion. |
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During the term of 2019/2020 I had been personally involved in at |
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least two debates, where one council member proposed an idea, |
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without prior consultation with the individuals/teams these debates |
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were risen about. This resulted in a pretty ridiculous situation - one |
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council member explaining the other "the basics" (like why this problem |
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was discussed in the past, why it did not make much sense to rise the topic |
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over and over again, also that a member who started the topic had to first |
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talk to the involved parties, and so on and so forth). |
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> 4. How will candidates work to bring this change about during |
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> their term of office, should they be elected? |
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By not doing all the negatives I have described above, and by doing what |
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I said each and every council member (in my very opinion) must do. |
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Care less about politics, care more about prolific activity. |
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> Please start new threads for new questions, |
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