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On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, at 17:11 CDT, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote: |
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I have the feeling that quite a bit of the current heated discussion |
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(about whatever) stems from a perceived lack of "democracy" in our |
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processes. |
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Therefore, I suggest as meeting agenda that the council discusses the |
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introduction of a "general resolution" similarly to the one that Debian |
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has [1]. Debian's version would have to be adapted to Gentoo specifics |
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but in short a possible version could include |
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- overruling council (and comrel?) decisions with a 2:1 majority |
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- a vote of no confidence forcing council reelections |
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- accepting/withdrawing/... GLEPs with a 2:1 majority |
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A vote could be initiated by |
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- the council itself |
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- a sufficient number of developers seconding the motion |
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Eligible voters would be Gentoo developers. |
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I am happy to author a first draft proposal GLEP. If this idea finds |
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enough supporters on the developer side and on the council, I suggest to |
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proceed as follows: |
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- let council accept the GLEP |
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- initiate a "general resolution" (or however we end up naming the |
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child) asking to support the GLEP formally. |
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I am tired of hearing that my decisions and that of my colleagues on the |
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council would be due to some agenda, sinister behavior or |
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whatever. A "general resolution" would introduce a nice mechanism that |
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would deter loud single voices ("the majority of developers is against |
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this and that") and let just speak the body of developers itself. I |
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suggest we make the bar of initiating such a vote relatively high (but |
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by no means impossible) so that we don't get swamped with too much |
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stuff, though. |
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Best, |
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Matthias |
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[1] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4 |