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 1L28Js-0007FJ-Ms for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:55:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94F5AE01AF; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C57E01AF for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:55:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gentoo.org (xray.science.oregonstate.edu [128.193.220.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE5D646DB; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:55:26 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:55:25 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: Tobias Scherbaum Cc: Ferris McCormick , gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties Message-ID: <20081117175525.GA23297@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> <20081117161547.GA29951@comet> <1226944170.3939.12.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="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1226944170.3939.12.camel@homer.ob.libexec.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: 505e432c-a776-43c5-9755-9f6ce4027bb0 X-Archives-Hash: d7186e760faceed425257b303d6811f4 --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 18:49 Mon 17 Nov , Tobias Scherbaum wrote: > So we could end up with only 1 council member in the worst case? ;) Yes, although worst is a matter of definition. If the developer=20 community wants what is effectively a benevolent dictator, then let's=20 give it to them. This is, after all, a community distribution so we=20 should do what the community wants. > I don't think that's something we really want. The majority of developers should choose what kind of leadership they=20 want, instead of us deciding for them. > In my opinion we need to have at minimum 5 council members to make=20 > sure there's some kind of redundancy plus to get different views and=20 > ideas on issues brought up to the council. Anyone can contribute views and ideas ... why do you need to be on the=20 council to do that? Most of the issues are discussed on -dev, and I've=20 pushed to make that a requirement and meetings as primarily just votes. --=20 Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkkhsA0ACgkQXVaO67S1rtuVNACgzG1A0hBEJ0g123bZpwPPmPmj ujIAoIyRUsK4ePptzFWKjoBjAcWx9mPT =41TA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi--