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 1EnEpc-0001OJ-QB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:37:05 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBGCaIx5026070; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:36:18 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 jBGCXZNj008411 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:33:36 GMT Received: from car75-2-82-66-60-148.fbx.proxad.net ([82.66.60.148]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1EnEmF-0007NF-7v for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 12:33:35 +0000 Message-ID: <43A2B41E.2010109@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 13:33:34 +0100 From: Thierry Carrez Organization: Gentoo Linux User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050727) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: disallowing multiple votes per person in council meetings References: <20051215202036.6f978496@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20051215202036.6f978496@snowdrop.home> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b8ed5a2b-92b2-48a3-8204-c4b580d9610f X-Archives-Hash: 1eab791aff9147f17d1ad3f80e2387b3 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Possible proposal: the current council meeting rules be updated with > one of the following two clauses: > >>Each person at a council meeting may represent only one voting role. > > Or: > >>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. I'm in favor of the latter, especially due to the following advantages : > * It would allow voters to see how people are likely to behave if they > are voted in in future elections. (Assumption: many people who are > appointed as proxies will stand in future elections.) > > * It will lead to increased discussion, which in turn means the council > is more likely to notice any problems with items on the agenda. About the disadvantage, the "missing two consecutive meetings" rule for the slacker points still protects a council member from accidental last-minute no-proxy failure. And for the meeting itself, the difference between "missing" and "proxied by an already-present council member" is not really significant. > 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)". Sure, would help toward the advantage #1. Would also help identifying council members that have a tendancy to miss meetings, to make better choices in future elections. -- Thierry Carrez (Koon) Recently-proxied council member -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list