From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLdVW-0004Ad-1e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:04:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37E3AE0349; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:04:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.140]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDB49E0349 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.141] (helo=spike) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LLdVT-0008TV-TM for gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:04:04 +0000 Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 13:03:51 +0000 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Voting procedure To: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1231419666.7249.0.camel@localhost> (from dev-zero@gentoo.org on Thu Jan 8 13:01:06 2009) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.26 Message-Id: <1231592642.3886.0@spike> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [62.3.120.141] X-Archives-Salt: e3694519-fac2-437f-8283-283a4dff8600 X-Archives-Hash: 74c6e09205b62623e0506209355b681c -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.01.08 13:01, Tiziano M=C3=BCller wrote: > Hi everyone >=20 > Since Cardoe didn't present the paper up to now, I'd like to get the > discussion started how the voting procedure should look like in the > future. >=20 > So far we've introduced the _reopen_nominations person in the last > vote > and it didn't change a lot. But there are more questions: >=20 > Does there always have to be 7 council members? If yes, what should > happen when we i) don't have enough nominations and/or ii) > _reopen_nominations is ranked somewhere between rank 1-7 ? > If not, should there be a minimum? If yes, same questions as above. >=20 > I know it's boring stuff but it's better to discuss it now instead of > during the next election period. >=20 > Cheers, > Tiziano >=20 > ps The results from the 2008b vote are still not on the council page, > who's going to do that? >=20 > --=20 > =EF=BB=BF------------------------------------------------------- > Tiziano M=C3=BCller > Gentoo Linux Developer > Areas of responsibility: > Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin > E-Mail : dev-zero@gentoo.org > GnuPG FP : F327 283A E769 2E36 18D5 4DE2 1B05 6A63 AE9C 1E30 >=20 Tiziano, I would like to widen the discussion a little. I propose that council members serve for two years, not the current=20 year and that half the seats are contested every year.=20 This helps ensure a smooth transition from one council to the next and=20 avoids the case where a council near the end of its term decides to=20 'leave it for the new council' and the new council takes a few months=20 to find its feet. We have seen both cases already. Council can debate/vote on that any time, or even decide to hold a=20 referendum. To answer your questions directly, I'm not happy with the 'fake person' A democracy gets the leadership it deserves, if there are seven=20 vacanices and only seven candidates, they should be elected unopposed.=20 No vote required. We could make voting compulsory but that would make a lot of work for=20 election offcials, chasing slackers. It would force developers to=20 register their apathy by submitting a valid ballot with all names=20 ranked equally. The 'none of the below' option can force a continuious=20 cycle of nominations/elections unless we drop the 'none of the below'=20 from any second attempt, then its clearly served no useful purpose. The trustees are currently running with one vacancy and one appointee. An odd number works best and the appointee serves only until the next=20 planned election. I'm really suggesting that council looks at what=20 the Foundation does. I'm not saying its perfect but there may be some=20 ideas there. The Foundation trustees cannot have proxies as trustees are legally=20 responsible for the runing of a legal entity, as directors of a company=20 and slacker marks make no sense to the trustees either. I find the idea of proxies undemocratic. They are in effect a councilor=20 appointed for a short period by a single councilor. Thats not very=20 democratic now is it? What whould happen if a council meeting was composed of seven proxies,=20 is it still representative of the council?=20 =20 My view is that the coucil is overly cautions about its democratic=20 practices, sometimes to its detriment and at other times (proxies) the=20 processes are not democratic at all.=20 Disclaimer: The views above are my own. They do not represent the=20 formal position of any project I may be a member of. - --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklonMIACgkQTE4/y7nJvauMhACgkcSsB1pXzhDJLd15zUBB761h 7Q4An3Y0V4tkdhEq7lG3GyC66Kj5Qu5x =3D7GlT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----