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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-39: drop hard requirement of yearly lead elections
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 05:46:47
Message-Id: ecdf3deddcf71fb17afecc2101af2764ec2c82f1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-39: drop hard requirement of yearly lead elections by John Helmert III
1 On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 10:59 -0600, John Helmert III wrote:
2 > On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:17:34AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
3 > > > > > > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2022, ajak wrote:
4 > >
5 > > > - selected by the members of the project. This selection must
6 > > > - occur at least once every 12 months, and may occur at any
7 > > > - time.
8 > > > + selected by the members of the project. This selection should
9 > > > + occur at least once every 12 months, but may occur at any
10 > > > + time. Leads may keep their position for more than 12 months if
11 > > > + project membership deems an election unecessary.
12 > >
13 > > How would you reliably determine this, other than by having a vote?
14 >
15 > By any project member initiating the election process, I'd think. The
16 > GLEP doesn't dictate anything about how elections have to happen, so
17 > I'm not sure we need/want to add anything to that effect.
18 >
19
20 I think the rough point behind requiring a periodic elections is to give
21 people an opportunity to issue secret votes against the current lead,
22 i.e. without requiring them to publicly oppose the lead. I'm not saying
23 this is really necessary in the case of Gentoo, though.
24
25 --
26 Best regards,
27 Michał Górny

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