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 1L3AOd-0002h7-NN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC2F4E04A9; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay03.ispgateway.de (smtprelay03.ispgateway.de [80.67.18.15]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EB8E04A9 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.224.152.37] (helo=arkane.local) by smtprelay03.ispgateway.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1L3AOa-0002OJ-UE for gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:20:37 +0100 Received: by arkane.local (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5FD5CA626; Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:19:21 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:19:21 +0100 From: Torsten Veller To: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-council] Re: Stepping back from council duties Message-ID: <20081120151336.TA069d0.tv@veller.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-council@lists.gentoo.org References: <491EF351.8040200@gentoo.org> <20081116060043.GD23210@comet> <20081116124154.TA6c518.tv@veller.net> <20081116175546.GH23210@comet> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081116175546.GH23210@comet> Jabber-ID: tove@jabber.ccc.de X-PGP-Fingerprint: 0416 3C11 8D79 65B9 AAD0 2065 BBC7 14D1 9C67 CD96 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-11-16) X-Df-Sender: 1067115 X-Archives-Salt: 5bb7a1c5-ef5a-4811-b47a-88547f9da763 X-Archives-Hash: c4296934cb6fb7d2e82bbfc8997471fd * Donnie Berkholz : > On 13:04 Sun 16 Nov , Torsten Veller wrote: > > | * Whenever a member of the Council loses their position (the reason is > > | irrelevant; they could be booted for slacking or they resign or ...), then > > | the next person in line from the previous Council election is offered the > > | position. If they decline, it is offered to the next person in line, and so > > | forth. If they accept and the current Council unanimously accepts the new > > | person, they get the position with a 'reduced' term such that the yearly > > | elections still elect a full group. If the Council does not accept that > > | person, then a new election is held to choose a new member. > > > > > > So your options are: > > - Change the rules once again. Because you can. > > - Follow the rules. > > Try thinking about this from a different perspective: What is best for > Gentoo? If the rules are broken, they should get fixed instead of > blindly followed. That looks like a topic for today's council meeting, doesn't it?