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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: Tobias Scherbaum <dertobi123@gentoo.org>
Cc: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>,
	gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo@fmccor.us
Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:15:47 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081117161547.GA29951@comet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226860843.3922.61.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de>

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On 19:40 Sun 16 Nov     , Tobias Scherbaum wrote:
> Count me in as well for that idea. Having that "nobody" person running
> in the election allows us to have a clear and comprehensible breakup
> between those candidates who could easily fill a gap and those who don't
> (and therefore when it's time to hold an election for a person filling
> that gap). It still leaves one question open: What to do when "nobody"
> is elected on the 5th or 6th position (or even the 1st ...)?

Have a smaller council. The largest number of odd people <=7 that are 
ranked above "nobody". There's no reason it has to be 7, and it seems to 
me that on a 7-person council, about half end up doing mostly nothing 
that's related to being on the council.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-17 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-15 16:05 [gentoo-council] Stepping back from council duties Markus Ullmann
2008-11-16  6:00 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-16 12:04   ` [gentoo-council] " Torsten Veller
2008-11-16 13:36     ` Ferris McCormick
2008-11-16 13:45       ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2008-11-16 15:51         ` Torsten Veller
2008-11-17  2:55           ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
2008-11-16 17:55     ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-16 18:21       ` Ferris McCormick
2008-11-16 18:40         ` Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-16 18:44           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-11-17 17:38             ` Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-17 18:03               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-11-17 18:18                 ` Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-17 16:15           ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2008-11-17 17:49             ` Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-17 17:55               ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-17 18:31                 ` Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-17 19:13                   ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-17 18:31             ` Roy Bamford
2008-11-17 19:16               ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-17 21:36               ` Roy Bamford
2008-11-17 21:45                 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-16 20:36         ` Alec Warner
2008-11-16 20:52           ` Ferris McCormick
2008-11-20 14:19       ` Torsten Veller
2008-11-20 17:29         ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-11-16 16:48   ` [gentoo-council] " Tobias Scherbaum
2008-11-16 17:43     ` Donnie Berkholz

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