Re: [gentoo-council] Resolve unfinished GLEP 39 business

[Denis Dupeyron <calchan@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> i still dont see what is wrong with the amendment process that has been used
> multiple times in the past
[...]
> council members are *voted in* because the community *trusts them to make the
> important decisions*.  if the decision made really pisses off the community,
> again you will hear about it and you can take the response into consideration.
> plus, if you do something really stupid, it isnt like your ass will remain in
> power.

I totally agree with you. However a majority of council members and
many devs seem to think that since GLEP 39 was originally voted by all
devs then every amendment to it needs to also be voted by all devs. As
I saw that coming I asked the council to vote on whether it could
decide on a process and the outcome was no. The only sensible way to
go forward now is thus to ask developers what they want us to do. The
other alternatives are not amending GLEP 39 or asking all devs to vote
on each amendments. The former is obviously silly and I'm convinced
the latter, although logical, isn't a good practical solution and may
not be what a majority of devs want.

Denis.