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 1L26lS-0005HQ-9B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0F514E01F8; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0E93E01F8 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (c-98-246-79-112.hsd1.or.comcast.net [98.246.79.112]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F8564BDC; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:15:48 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:15:47 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: Tobias Scherbaum Cc: Ferris McCormick , gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo@fmccor.us Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties Message-ID: <20081117161547.GA29951@comet> References: <491EF351.8040200@gentoo.org> <20081116060043.GD23210@comet> <20081116124154.TA6c518.tv@veller.net> <20081116175546.GH23210@comet> <20081116182110.6d1295ac@anaconda.krait.us> <1226860843.3922.61.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> 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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1226860843.3922.61.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: b7402a4f-e9c2-4cf0-9343-03dc0986a5ec X-Archives-Hash: 5a9822f655cee68bbb53e04060801f77 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 <=3D7 that are=20 ranked above "nobody". There's no reason it has to be 7, and it seems to=20 me that on a 7-person council, about half end up doing mostly nothing=20 that's related to being on the council. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkkhmLIACgkQXVaO67S1rtvrhgCfQE+iZyfWM9g9rlbGjvsPfqU8 UDQAoPzt4lw9031PEabD6EzD3EswkDZZ =0y87 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn--