| 1 |
On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 05:16:48AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: |
| 2 |
> 1. I don't think we ought to be giving more power to the Foundation |
| 3 |
> until the Foundation membership is re-aligned with the distro |
| 4 |
> developer membership. We essentially have two democratic |
| 5 |
> organizations with overlapping but different constituencies, and I'm |
| 6 |
> not sure Gentoo could survive if they start trying to pull the distro |
| 7 |
> in different directions since the community seems like it is barely |
| 8 |
> above critical mass as it is. |
| 9 |
Responded to this in a new thread. |
| 10 |
|
| 11 |
> 2. The Foundation needs to focus first and foremost on keeping the |
| 12 |
> lights on. Right now there are 10 periodic activities that the |
| 13 |
> Foundation needs to perform to be in compliance with the law/etc, and |
| 14 |
> according to the public records of the Foundation we're current on 6 |
| 15 |
> of them. Not all are equally important, and maybe we're just bad at |
| 16 |
> recordkeeping, but it isn't a great sign. ( |
| 17 |
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Activity_Tracker ) |
| 18 |
Record keeping mainly here. The only thing NOT up to date is our IRS 990 |
| 19 |
filing, because we're waiting for response from the IRS. |
| 20 |
|
| 21 |
> 3. I've yet to see any evidence that Comrel has actually done |
| 22 |
> anything wrong. In recent days I've seen one appeal, in which there |
| 23 |
> was seen some need to improve things, but the conclusion was that they |
| 24 |
> basically came to the right decision. If developers don't trust the |
| 25 |
> judgement of the Council on this they can always vote in a new |
| 26 |
> Council, but unless they elect people who are out to get rid of comrel |
| 27 |
> for the sake of doing so I am skeptical that they would come to a |
| 28 |
> different conclusion. Unfortunately I can't talk about all the |
| 29 |
> allegations for those involved. We also have an active thread where |
| 30 |
> somebody is complaining about Comrel but refuses to actually appeal, |
| 31 |
> and has commented in the thread that he thinks it is unlikely that his |
| 32 |
> appeal would be successful. |
| 33 |
> |
| 34 |
> I think there is room for improvement here, but I think it would be a |
| 35 |
> mistake to do something drastic. |
| 36 |
I agree that the present council & comrel are unlikely to change the |
| 37 |
outcome, but feel the room for improvement is mostly to be found in |
| 38 |
recording that the processes in place are actually being followed, and |
| 39 |
that the actions are well-recorded. The sensitive nature of the records |
| 40 |
& actions means the Foundation may have legal obligations to securely |
| 41 |
store them, but also ensure they are not lost from the institutional |
| 42 |
memory. |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
For a real world example, if a HR department fired somebody, I would |
| 45 |
expect them to have the organization securely retain records to prove |
| 46 |
why, for some period stipulated in their local laws. |
| 47 |
|
| 48 |
-- |
| 49 |
Robin Hugh Johnson |
| 50 |
Gentoo Linux: Dev, Infra Lead, Foundation Trustee & Treasurer |
| 51 |
E-Mail : robbat2@g.o |
| 52 |
GnuPG FP : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85 |
| 53 |
GnuPG FP : 7D0B3CEB E9B85B1F 825BCECF EE05E6F6 A48F6136 |
Archives