Re: [gentoo-dev] Email subdomain

[Thierry Carrez <koon@gentoo.org>]

Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Corey Shields wrote: [Fri Nov 18 2005, 10:42:30PM CST]
> 
>>Still screwed up.  Lesson learned, make friends with a majority of the 
>>council, write and propose a glep the day before a meeting and then push it 
>>through.  wow.  sounds a lot like American politics.
> 
> That's quite an indictment.  You've skipped right past the notion that
> perhaps a mistake was made to accuse the Council of cronyism.  As
> somebody who's been part of devrel, and thus the recipient of exactly
> that type of response more than once, I would think that you would have
> known (and done) better.

+1 here.

Cut the kabbale crap : we felt bad about delaying the GLEP vote for one
more month, and we also felt bad about pushing the decision while some
people already complained that revised version wasn't published soon
enough. The meetings logs are quite clear on this. So we took the median
way, accept that GLEP with those changes nobody complained about, and
create policy so that such things won't happen in the future. Apparently
we were wrong on two accounts :

- There were people that disagreed with the changes but stayed quiet in
their corner, waiting for a revised GLEP to appear to make their
comments, and that were caught short by its publication just before the
meeting

- There were people that don't have an opinion on the subject but were
watching the council for its first bad step to be able to accuse it of
abuse of power or worse

I won't stand (mostly) alone defending the Council handling of the
problem, we were just trying to find the most acceptable solution, which
is what we were elected for. Let the vocal minority reverse that
decision, I no longer care.

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