Re: [gentoo-project] Clarify language of GLEP 39

[Doug Freed]

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:40 PM, Gokturk Yuksek <gokturk@g.o> wrote:
> Doug Freed:
>> GLEP 39 currently states that "[A project] may have one or many leads"
>> (Specification section, first list, last item).  I believe (and a few
>> others agree) that this language is ambiguous,  Some projects have
>> interpreted this language to mean that a project may have no lead,
>> while others believe the language is to be interpreted as meaning that
>> projects must have at least one lead.  Therefore, I request that the
>> Council clarify the language of GLEP 39 to remove this ambiguity.  I
>
> The council has already provided a clarification[0]:
>
> """
> The wording of GLEP 39 was found to be unclear if not confusing (it
> states that a project "may have one or many leads", and that their
> selection "must occur at least once every 12 months").
>
> After discussion the following points were agreed upon:
> * The Gentoo Wiki project page template should be enhanced to show the
>   last lead election date for each project.
> * The council sends an e-mail to the gentoo-project mailing list asking
>   projects to consider electing a lead and confirming her/him regularly.
> """
>
> [0] https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20150913-summary.txt
>
>

As rich0 points out, there was no vote on the subject of the language
clarification.  In the raw log of that meeting, a few council members
noted the ambiguity themselves, and that it should probably be
resolved, but that was never done.  Therefore, I'm specifically asking
the council to remove the ambiguity in the language and pick one clear
meaning.  The actual actions taken in that meeting are only
tangentially related to that.

-Doug
dwfreed