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On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:12 +0100, Georg Witwer wrote: |
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> So I am here to ask your support to make djay our 11th member on the |
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> next Userreps/Userrel meeting this Saturday... |
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My only concern is that if this process gets abused, a majority of |
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userreps could expel a minority and handpick their replacements to match |
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their own ideas... but then again, this isn't a money / power |
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controlling seat, so I counter myself with "would that really ever |
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happen"? and "so what if it did"?! |
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I see that on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/userreps/index.xml |
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members are elected each year? In which case I think my above concern |
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would be even less a reality, as ousted members could raise support for |
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the next election anyway. |
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However, perhaps you should have a short policy for election and |
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replacement of members, so that if you ever are questioned, at least you |
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can say "We did it by the book". |
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> Building up a team with people that hardly know each other is not an |
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> easy task. It took us quite some time to get to know each other and to |
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> find a way to work somehow efficiently together. We are different to |
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> any other project in Gentoo land because we did not pick our team by |
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> ourself, but let others, you the user community, choose our team. |
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> That's the way it has to be of course but it's a handicap, |
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> nevertheless. |
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But keeping variety is essential, especially for gentoo. I doubt adding |
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one unknown member to the team will throw you all back to the days when |
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you didn't know each other. That one new member will more quickly get |
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to know the group (and vice versa) than the time a whole new group would |
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take. So perhaps the "next on the list" is a good idea? |
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However, it seems like djay-il deserves a bit of recognition for his |
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efforts, and placing him in the position would do that. |
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So, I've said both yes and no! In the end, I guess the decision is up |
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to the team what method they choose. |
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cya, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that |
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you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. |
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-- Otto Von Bismarck |
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