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On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 12:46 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2022-11-08 at 10:59 -0600, John Helmert III wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 09:17:34AM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > > > > > > > On Tue, 08 Nov 2022, ajak wrote: |
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> > > > - selected by the members of the project. This selection must |
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> > > > - occur at least once every 12 months, and may occur at any |
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> > > > - time. |
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> > > > + selected by the members of the project. This selection should |
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> > > > + occur at least once every 12 months, but may occur at any |
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> > > > + time. Leads may keep their position for more than 12 months if |
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> > > > + project membership deems an election unecessary. |
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> > > How would you reliably determine this, other than by having a vote? |
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> > By any project member initiating the election process, I'd think. The |
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> > GLEP doesn't dictate anything about how elections have to happen, so |
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> > I'm not sure we need/want to add anything to that effect. |
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> I think the rough point behind requiring a periodic elections is to give |
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> people an opportunity to issue secret votes against the current lead, |
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> i.e. without requiring them to publicly oppose the lead. I'm not saying |
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> this is really necessary in the case of Gentoo, though. |
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There's value in that, but prior to me pushing for the Elections team |
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to run the last base-system lead election, had any project election |
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actually had a secret ballot? |
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