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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 15:53:27
Message-Id: CAPDOV4_M6r+xsEeFsjXjAbxO6ZnMP+GVfHVyU3+K_oJ80sMLTg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals by William Hubbs
1 How about if they just abstain from any votes where there may be a conflict
2 of interest? I would hate to limit the ability of people to contribute
3 technically just because they were elected to council.
4
5 -Daniel
6
7 On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 3:42 PM, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
8
9 > Hi all,
10 >
11 > The council can't make this change since it is a glep 39 change, so I am
12 > bringing it to the community for discussion -- I assume there would need
13 > to be a full dev vote to make it happen.
14 >
15 > I feel that council members should not be members of projects whose
16 > actions can be appealed to the council like qa or comrel. I have felt
17 > this way for a long time, because I think it compromises the full
18 > council's ability to vote fairly on appeals.
19 >
20 > As a member of the council who would be affected by this, if it passes
21 > and I run and am elected to council again, I would have no problem with
22 > stepping down from QA.
23 >
24 > Attached is a patch for glep 39 which will make this change.
25 >
26 > Thoughts?
27 >
28 > William
29 >
30 >

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals Matthew Thode <prometheanfire@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>