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On Saturday, November 12, 2016 9:16:09 PM EST Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> Sure. In an ideal world the Council would send out a call for agenda |
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> items each month, and there wouldn't be any, because everybody is |
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> resolving their own issues on their own. |
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The council should be setting the agenda, leading Gentoo. Call for Agenda |
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should be minimal and supplemental. Developer input on direction, etc. |
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Problem resolution should never be part of the councils recurring agenda, or |
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really ever unless it is technical in nature. The Council can always leverage |
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the Foundation and Trustees rather than creating more entities and chaos. |
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> Team leads already try to deal with conflicts within their teams. |
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> Sometimes they're unable to do so. Maybe the team lead is part of the |
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> problem. |
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There are not many team leads much less active. I am not sure problems really |
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ever existed between team leads. |
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> And this is why we have a process for dealing with these sorts of |
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> issues. They don't always go away on their own. |
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None of which require Comrel. |
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> What would you prefer that the Council spend their time on? The main |
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> purpose of the Council is to deal with cases where individual projects |
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> aren't able to resolve things on their own, conflicts between |
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> projects, and appeals from Comrel/QA. It is a democratically elected |
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> governance body. |
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I am seriously in major shock at your statement. Coming from a Council |
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member... I think you have a complete misunderstanding of the purpose of the |
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Gentoo Council. I am flat out flabbergasted. |
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The purpose of the Gentoo Council is to Lead the Gentoo project as a whole. |
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Anything that falls outside the scope of the Foundation. The Council should be |
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producing new ideas and taking Gentoo in various directions. |
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It is a leadership body, not a problem resolution entity... That is such a |
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minor aspect, and surely not the main intention or mandate. |
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Let me show you what I am talking about... |
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http://www.funtoo.org/Java_Configuration_Design_Update |
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Things like that, ideas should be produced from Council members and set out as |
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the direction for Gentoo. Then motivate volunteers to help take Gentoo in said |
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direction. It should not simply proxy things from developers, EAPI, etc. |
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There should be some of that sure, but the Council should be producing such |
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things themselves. Council generated GLEPs and other things. |
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There are many other things the Council and/or Foundation should be doing as |
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well. Self driven things, not things that are solely coming from developers. |
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Seriously what the heck is going on... Things have gotten so far from what |
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they should be... This is really crazy... |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |