Re: [gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: Council demands on maintainers & council legal liability

[Michał Górny]

On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 02:14 +0000, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> I realize that there is only a short period left in the election, but
> I've been busy with IRL issues, and mgorny's trustee manifesto [1] ascribed
> something to the Council members that concerned me; there's one
> additional good question for the Council that I'll close with.
>
> 1. Points 1a&1c of mgorny's manifesto imply that the council can
>    unilaterally prevent support of any given package in Gentoo, and
>    basically remove the package from the distribution.
>
>    This is despite any developers that may wish to support the package.

For the record, I think you are ascribing to me something I didn't mean.
Sure, Council can adjust the direction distribution takes (= decide
on the default, suggest developers what to work on) but I don't see it
as completely blocking support for anything.  My examples were rather
exaggerated.

>
>    What's your opinion of the council using this offensively against
>    packages? As a hypothetical, say systemd-ng comes about, with an even
>    worse opinionated choices than those presently in systemd. Should the
>    council be able to force support for openrc & systemd stop?
>
> 2. As an additional point, can you try to give your version of a simple
>    statement on the legal liabilities that the Council as a whole, and
>    the Council members as individuals, have for their actions?
>
> [1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/trustee-manifesto-2019.txt
>

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Best regards,
Michał Górny