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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> So you're saying the Council is free to entirely ignore the rules under |
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> which it was elected, and instead say "We are now supreme dictators for |
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> life"? |
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I think that there is a balance somewhere between supreme dictators for |
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life and needing to have new elections because a few people didn't |
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notice that the very-rare non-regular council meeting got scheduled. |
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If Gentoo were a corporation it would have bylaws governing these sorts |
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of issues and they'd be far more detailed than GLEP 39. Legally the |
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council doesn't have any meaning as it doesn't control any tangible |
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assets - so such matters really don't need to apply. |
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The principle is one of openness and representative democracy. I don't |
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think we sacrifice that by letting the current council finish its term. |
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The council governs with the consent of the developers - nobody is |
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disputing this. If the council loses the support of the developers it |
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would be appropriate to choose a new council - which is a better option |
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than pulling an XFree86 and watching all the devs just form their own |
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new distro. However, I don't really see any evidence that anybody at |
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all is unhappy with the council (even those calling for the new |
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elections aren't expressing any dissatisfaction with the current council). |
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To me this is like running a stop sign in the middle of nowhere with a |
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wide open view and no cars in sight. I probably wouldn't do it, and I |
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can see why it is technically wrong, but I don't think I could really |
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say that anybody who runs the sign is doing harm to society by doing so. |
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Policies should serve the distro and the developers - not the other |
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way around. |
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Maybe we just won't see eye to eye on this - that's OK I suppose. If |
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lots of people really want new elections then let's have them. However, |
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to me it just seems like a waste and I don't think we're obligated to |
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hold them just because 3-4 people have called for them. |
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