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Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> And as I've said before, if we think a policy doesn't make sense, we |
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> can change it. But changing a policy that affects Council and then |
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> applying it retroactively gets tricky, because Council themselves are |
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> part of the approval process. |
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Nothing too tricky - council votes that the GLEP is to be modified |
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retroactively. A few folks complain. Life goes on. |
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> Changing policy is a fairly lengthy |
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> procedure, but right now Council is on a one month clock to hold an |
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> election unless something changes. It still seems to me that Petteri |
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> has it right, and that it's better just to do it rather than talk about |
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> it. |
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What happens if we just do nothing and pretend it didn't happen? Most |
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likely, not much. |
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Don't get me wrong - I'm not into dictatorships and I'm a big proponent |
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of democracy. If most devs really want another election, then let's get |
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it going. However, all of about 4-6 people (and not all devs) have |
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chimed in on this discussion, which suggests that most don't care. If |
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most devs don't care for a new election, wouldn't it just be a major |
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distraction to call for an election now? You'll have three months of a |
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lame-duck council and all kinds of decisions may get put off. |
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A few posters in this thread have suggested that they'll probably vote |
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for the exact same council, but it is just important that we follow the |
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process. Hopefully none of these posters are among those accusing |
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Gentoo of being bureaucratic - having an election just for the sake of |
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having an election when most folks don't want a change just seems like |
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an exercise in procedure. |
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I'm just trying to be pragmatic - the council was democratically |
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elected, and a new council will be elected in a few months. If the |
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council just went and disappeared I could see the need for an emergency |
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election to keep things going. However, at this point an election will |
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just delay stuff getting done. |
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I think that an election now would be a mistake. However, if we really |
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want to survey the devs it wouldn't be a bad thing, although if anybody |
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other than the few of us cared strongly they could just post here. If |
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there really are a lot of devs who would like us to follow the letter of |
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the current GLEP 39 then I'd be all for an election. |
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