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On 13/02/18 00:13, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:40 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@×××.org> wrote: |
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>> On 12/02/18 23:02, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>> Can you provide us with an example when such a scenario has happened |
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>>> in the past 12 years of council, or is the above purely hypothetical? |
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>>> Because in the latter case it is not an actual problem that needs to |
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>>> be solved. |
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>>> |
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>>> It is not a game of Nomic that we're playing here, but we are trying |
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>>> to run a distro. IMHO precluding council members from participating in |
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>>> projects isn't helpful. Or do we really want a council that is sitting |
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>>> in an ivory tower, completely detached from the daily distro work? |
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>>> |
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>> Uhm, what's the difference .. the council already live in their own land |
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>> separate from most of the developers, and definitely from the user |
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>> community at large ? |
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>> Or at least, such is the perception .. [don't shoot the messenger and |
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>> all that] |
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> Such is your perception. Most developers just cast their votes, and |
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> hence the same council members keep getting re-elected. I doubt that |
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> would happen if most developers considered them aloof, especially |
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> since the Council has always attracted a significant number of |
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> election candidates. |
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> You can't judge something like this by mailing list posts. |
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My synopsis is gathered from a number of conversations, Rich, and |
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definitely not the noise that emanates from both developers and |
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non-developers on /any/ of the mailing lists .. |
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