From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1En1FP-0003z8-0U for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:06:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBFM4bPu015738; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:04:37 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBFLxYCi008840 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:59:35 GMT Received: from 83.72.33.139.ip.tele2adsl.dk ([83.72.33.139] helo=dmz.brixandersen.dk) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1En18Q-00057F-5Z for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 21:59:34 +0000 Received: by dmz.brixandersen.dk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 25C235D15E; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:59:32 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 22:59:31 +0100 From: Henrik Brix Andersen To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: disallowing multiple votes per person in council meetings Message-ID: <20051215215931.GD13193@dmz.brixandersen.dk> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20051215202036.6f978496@snowdrop.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Xm/fll+QQv+hsKip" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051215202036.6f978496@snowdrop.home> X-PGP-Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~brix/files/HenrikBrixAndersen.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Archives-Salt: 59d42bcd-1ddb-4209-be84-9eb2144bd887 X-Archives-Hash: 990178be1acf321adef56e55b527b1b2 --Xm/fll+QQv+hsKip Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:20:36PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Possible proposal: the current council meeting rules be updated with > one of the following two clauses: > > > A proxy must not be an existing council member, and any single person > > may not be a proxy for more than one person at any given meeting. >=20 > (The difference being, the former allows a council member to appoint > another council member as their proxy, so long as said member forfeits > their own role.) I think the latter makes more sense - only allowing non-council members to represent absent council members. That is how it works in the boards I have been involved with. > * It will lead to increased discussion, which in turn means the council > is more likely to notice any problems with items on the agenda. > > * It will avoid having council meetings made up of two or three council > members, all acting as proxies for other members. More eyes on the matter is a good thing. If we allow council members to proxy for other council members we might end up with quite a few eyes on the discussion... > * This fits in better with the way I was intending proxies to work when > I wrote the slacker boot proposal, rather than the way they've ended up > working due to insufficient pedantry in the original description :) Sounds good to me. > Arguable disadvantage: >=20 > * It makes it harder for council members to all go "oops, can't make > it, so vapier is my proxy" at the last minute. Yeah, well - I think we can live with that. How many times has the proxy function been used so far? > On the same subject, I'd also like to see the "meeting participants" > table updated to explicitly list proxies, for example in the form > "jaervosz (for koon)". Yes, that would be natural. =2E/Brix --=20 Henrik Brix Andersen Gentoo Metadistribution | Mobile computing herd --Xm/fll+QQv+hsKip Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: GnuPG signed iD8DBQFDoedDv+Q4flTiePgRAizZAJ98+ijrSHpokpRFtmg7wy7z9WNtPgCfUFVW mEyfO4H1BDeuP7DgawM17W4= =cZPt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Xm/fll+QQv+hsKip-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list