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On 7/4/19 4:14 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> I realize that there is only a short period left in the election, but |
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> I've been busy with IRL issues, and mgorny's trustee manifesto [1] ascribed |
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> something to the Council members that concerned me; there's one |
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> additional good question for the Council that I'll close with. |
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> 1. Points 1a&1c of mgorny's manifesto imply that the council can |
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> unilaterally prevent support of any given package in Gentoo, and |
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> basically remove the package from the distribution. |
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> This is despite any developers that may wish to support the package. |
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> What's your opinion of the council using this offensively against |
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> packages? As a hypothetical, say systemd-ng comes about, with an even |
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> worse opinionated choices than those presently in systemd. Should the |
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> council be able to force support for openrc & systemd stop? |
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Its definitely within the purview of the council to do it, but in most |
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cases Gentoo is about flexibility so you don't want to. There are |
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scenarios where you would have to consider it, though, e.g large impacts |
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on others work (project out of scope), security issues , etc |
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> 2. As an additional point, can you try to give your version of a simple |
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> statement on the legal liabilities that the Council as a whole, and |
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> the Council members as individuals, have for their actions? |
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Council is no legal entity, so there is no as a whole, the individual |
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legal liability is somewhat limited as there is no fiduciary duty etc |
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arising due to this; which means no negligence claims etc.. So basically |
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you're left with whatever else you can be sued for as an individual, but |
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you're in a more profiled position so it is possibly more likely that |
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you will face it by some angry internet people... |
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Kristian Fiskerstrand |
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