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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-project <gentoo-project@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 01:21:32
Message-Id: CAGfcS_=0h3a=mbUgBay5Do+0WDHqLk25gED5WUCajuO5mTHmdg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals by Roy Bamford
1 On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:25 PM, Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote:
2 >
3 > Most developers don't cast their votes.
4 > 2015-16 The turnout for this election was 30.638.
5 > 2016-17 The turnout for this election was 37.190%
6 >
7
8 So, even the votes are imperfect. First, they're not voting
9 specifically on the assertion that the Council is disconnected from
10 reality. Second, you can't really infer anything from a vote that
11 isn't cast.
12
13 However, even so I suspect that 37% of developers is a far larger
14 number of opinions than the number of developers who have made
15 comments on the lists.
16
17 Finally, given that few of Gentoo's projects actually operate as
18 cohesive teams, I'm not really sure what it even means for a Gentoo
19 developer to be connected or disconnected. Most of us just do our
20 thing.
21
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23 Rich