Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposing fundamental changes to DevRel

[Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org>]

On 2010.06.17 01:00, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hello!
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> 
>       Problem: Both betelgeuse and jmbsvicetto are DevRel members
>                nominated for the upcoming council election.
>                As I am also nominated proposing such rule could be
>                understood aiming at decreasing their chances on the
>                council and increasing mine as a result.  However, as 
> I
>                propose to start over with a developer voted conflict
>                resolution team this is not the case.  The only
>                implication is that if they make it to the council
>                they cannot be elected for the conflict resolution
> team.
> 
> 
> DevRel is one of the most important things in Gentoo - we dependend 
> on
> that working well.  If you care about this please make yourself 
> heard.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
> 
> 

Sebastian,

You are suggesting that devrel/council members don't know of the 
conflict of interests beforehand and/or that they fail to disqualify 
themselves from an active part in either the devrel or council part of 
the proceedings. I admit that the possibility exists under present 
rules.

Enforced division of responsibility can be a good thing in places but 
I'm not convinced that this is one of those places. That said, I would 
not want devrel to become a subset of council, nor council to become a 
subset of devrel.  Its just for that reason that the Foundation bylaws 
forbid any individual serving as a trustee and on council at the same 
time.  Maybe I am coming round to supporting your view after all.

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Roy Bamford
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