Dear Gentoo Council,

During the meeting you held on December (see the logs here: https://projects.gentoo.org/council/meeting-logs/20171210.txt ), you voted for restricting the gentoo-dev mailing list. Although in said meeting somebody raised that such a change affected the Gentoo Social Contract as it referred users to provide comments on the gentoo-dev mailing list (see https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/philosophy/social-contract.html ) this was dismissed by one of your members (which has, in the past, called the Gentoo Social Contract "dead law") by saying that the right place to send such comments is gentoo-project (but willingly ignoring that such a reference has been part of it since the first archived draft version https://web.archive.org/web/20021112053724/http://www.gentoo.org:80/main/en/contract.xml and the first non draft version https://web.archive.org/web/20031203222653/http://www.gentoo.org:80/main/en/contract.xml which predate the gentoo-project mailing list) and apparently ignored by the rest.

This was noted after the vote had happened and to the best of my knowledge hadn't been raised before. Despite that, on the next meeting where the topic was discussed a different council member stated that said person did not "any pertinent new information since last vote".

Now, three months after, no action has been carried by the council on this very specific regard despite being made aware of it. This clearly shows that the current council members not only take hastened decissions without even doing propper research, they don't try to clean up the mess they cause after their own decissions.

Given the inaction by the council, I'm propossing to apply either of these two changes to the Gentoo Social contract.

First propossal:
Replace "Comments are welcome. Please send them to our gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list." by "Comments by selected people are welcome. Please send them to our gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list.". Which clearly reflects the new ivory tower philosophy the Council is making the Gentoo Project take.

Second propossal:
Replace "Comments are welcome. Please send them to our gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list." by "Comments by selected people are welcome. Please send them to our gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org mailing list CCing the Gentoo Foundation trustees on trustees@lists.gentoo.org.". Which ensures trustees get a notification of such propossals and still keeps the social contract open to comments for anybody.

Please note, in the spirit of the second propossal I'm CCing gentoo-project.

Klondike