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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1IA2Yi-0006rZ-Dk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:46:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6FBjEeT027309; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:45:14 GMT Received: from server1.tmkis.com (server1.tmkis.com [62.216.179.226]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6FBfdGL022182 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:41:39 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server1.tmkis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FD7E40FD for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server1.tmkis.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server1.tmkis.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 14887-03 for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from arkane.local (dslb-084-058-220-012.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.58.220.12]) by server1.tmkis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE3EE409D for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:41:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: by arkane.local (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CA1F43C08A; Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:40:29 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:40:29 +0200 From: Torsten Veller To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2007/08 Message-ID: <20070715132018.TA94041.tv@veller.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20070702205057.TA3f325.tv@veller.net> <468BB9B8.3020401@gentoo.org> <468BBB70.9050709@gentoo.org> <1183674055.8491.44.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20070715114621.TA3eb5e.tv@veller.net> 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: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-07-04) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at server1.tmkis.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l6FBjEgQ027309 X-Archives-Salt: f5dce3b7-a86f-46d8-b7f4-dff49f22d99d X-Archives-Hash: c473f9a1d774e84a95b69a76bd78892c * Tiziano M=FCller : > Torsten Veller schrieb: > > Let me please point out that no infrastructure team member is > > on the list right now. > >=20 > > As infra is often involved in implementing council decisions we shoul= d > > take care that the information flows. IMHO the easiest way to achieve= this > > is electing an infra member to the council. >=20 > In the contrary. We should see that not too much power/responsibility i= s > concentrated on a single person. >=20 > Since... > a) This guarantees that the council comes to a decision which is not > influenced by the (direct and already known) interest of it's members > and > b) Reduces the risk for Gentoo when someone with more than one key > position leaves If devs in a key position leave, it's often a problem. But I don't see a concentration problem here. > And if someone has to be in a council/whatsoever to get the relevant > information, something else is broken. I didn't write that and didn't meant that. > And tweaking the election procedure to reach that someone from a > special project is elected is somehow questionable, don't you think? No. I also vote this way. I want the council to represent Gentoo as a whole and be represented by Gentoo as a whole. I think it helps the other council members too if there is e.g. an infra member to take care of the infra stance. But: A council without an infra member can do a good job too. Thanks. --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list