Re: [gentoo-project] Merging Trustees and Council / Developers and Foundation - 1.0 reply

[Raymond Jennings]

Personally I think that the organization should be as follows

1.  Foundation, with members

a.  A member of the foundation is anyone who has proven more than passing
contribution to gentoo and who proves continuing interest in its future.
b.  Foundation members elect trustees
c.  Trustees vote on global issues affecting the foundation and gentoo as a
whole
d.  Trustees also maintain the bylaws that govern other structures of gentoo

2.  Departments/special projects/trustee supervised roles

Exact terminology for this is fuzzy, but basically, I think there are
certain roles that should not be limited only to
developers/codemonkey/techie types

a.  HR roles

HR is a very much non technical duty and I don't think it's proper to
restrict entirely to developers with commit access.

Nor do I think that the only people who should have a voice in gentoo's
future are techies who know how to code and bang out ebuilds.

This HR role would include recruiters, comrel, and undertakers.

b.  Infra

Anything that directly affects whether developers can do their jobs should
not be limited entirely to developers.  Having an "outside" oversight not
within the developer community itself would also insulate such an essential
role from nasty politics.

c.  PR

d.  Anything else important to gentoo but which does not necessarily
require technical expertise or ebuild wrangling skills or what have you.

3.  A council, elected by ebuild wranglers/techies, to decide on global
issues of a technical nature

As we have it now.  Someone needs to be a technical standards body, and
democratically speaking it should be a group accountable to the people
using the standards in question.