Re: [gentoo-project] call for agenda items -- council meeting 2021-05-09

[Michał Górny]

On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 09:31 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 12:39:21PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> > On Mon, 2021-05-03 at 11:15 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Mon, 03 May 2021, Michał Górny wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 2021-05-02 at 22:22 -0500, William Hubbs wrote:
> > > > > The way I see it is, if the council wants funding for something
> > > > > they
> > > > > can request it from the foundation, but I don't think they can
> > > > > direct
> > > > > the foundation not to fund something someone else requests.
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, given Antarus' response in the thread, I'm not sure there is
> > > > > anything for council to discuss.
> > >
> > > > Does 'being not sure' authorize you to arbitrarily decide to skip
> > > > agenda items from the community?
> > >
> > > I don't read William's reponse in such a way. The Council can still
> > > discuss the issue, and the Foundation may or may not listen.
> > >
> > > Ultimately it is up to them how they want to spend their money.
> > > I believe that part is clear.
> >
> > However the response is to be read, there's no item for this
> > in the agenda.  So it's pretty much a single Council member individually
> > deciding what Council discusses or not.
>
> You know that in the past some things that have come up on the call for agenda
> items thread have not ended up on the agenda.

Past violations are not an excuse.

> As was already said, any discussion we do around this doesn't really
> matter since we do not control financial issues for the distro.
>

With that attitude you may as well say that devs don't have to listen to
the Council and disband it altogether.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny