Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Social Contract, Council: please fix the mess you cause

[Michał Górny]

W dniu nie, 25.03.2018 o godzinie 21∶36 -0400, użytkownik Rich Freeman
napisał:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:40 PM, Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera
> (klondike) <klondike@g.o> wrote:
> >
> > "Comments by selected people are welcome. "
>
> And this would be why I've maintained that having non-overlapping
> Council/Trustees is a problem waiting to happen.  We have two
> governing bodies that disagree and continue to escalate things, in
> part because we don't allow an overlap in membership and there are
> only so many people interested in either job to go around.
>
> My prediction is that everybody will continue to get indignant leading
> up to the next Council election, then the developers will vote to
> maintain the status quo, and then at the next Trustee election there
> will be at most 0-2 extra nominees above the number of open slots, who
> will probably be motivated mostly out of disagreement with the
> Council, and then we'll get to watch the infighting for another year.
>

The infighting won't die unless one or more of the following happens:

1. Trustees understand that Council is not about wielding absolute power
but merely listening to developers. And developers are somewhat more
people than the ~5 devs who repeatedly abuse the mailing lists in their
protests, in order to force their will.

2. Trustees fix the past legal mess and find a reasonable way to protect
future Trustees from the screwups of previous boards, making it possible
for more people to be interested in Trustee positions, and effectively
reducing the problem of power-hungry, incompetent candidates.

3. We disband the Foundation and lose all the assets but gain
the ability to freely developer the distro without people who first
generously offer their services to Gentoo, and then start demanding
absolute power in the return.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny