From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4uuU-000363-8v for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:40:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1373FE04CE; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:40:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.249]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D487FE04CE for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 09:40:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1475417rvf.46 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:40:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references :x-google-sender-auth; bh=D2XJ+fhyvfcpvmK5c0aB5CYZu1ebRDKWJ/CiYjauvfk=; b=SXEjJ1MIot67ywoV655EhLbZaB7ggskT/6/ZSjuSzEoDkm4GYH9IMpmK+ReCfysX+0 pkRznyX7jySAG1ZZG1BP4G02QRg8FaWkrXfQ6MM0cXNrrtlzgg77S2P7la1wYlOR55v4 ZatwW25EYEi1MR75mM2fzlQxPO8V0sAzZwGo0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references:x-google-sender-auth; b=aQ4y2vIKWjT4X49g34uiosuSLLKhG04BJUOxBp3iMdGb+CVDtDwoxq3E2iNJqgM1hE gx8YPxJQ5JvAl+Ay2efU/OgpSIgqg06Jyhm+v1w0AG9xXQKKRDS1h4Y+2USE9wSq+HSW CqBrkVOP1s0NS3KFejPJRGnaiI9zA1rC6r3XU= Received: by 10.141.18.14 with SMTP id v14mr689031rvi.171.1212831628448; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.211.15 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 02:40:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 10:40:28 +0100 From: "Richard Brown" Sender: mynamewasgone@gmail.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 In-Reply-To: <20080606142005.07356ee5@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <3c32f69c0806041700h42cc5110y34400ec34184e77c@mail.gmail.com> <4847B354.6090800@gentoo.org> <20080606142005.07356ee5@gentoo.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2866c88e4cfcdd75 X-Archives-Salt: caab2f14-190b-4a9d-a0f5-7b2b79de2621 X-Archives-Hash: 32d109d390823d32e8f5beafe5e3db92 2008/6/6 Samuli Suominen : > Fri, 6 Jun 2008 01:48:03 +0100 > "Richard Brown" kirjoitti: > That's right. When a developer has certain amount of technical > and /non-trivial/ commits to the tree why should he explain himself > over and over again? I'm sorry, it's my mistake. I thought we were discussing who would be suitable to be elected to the council on the basis of merit, not on who can commit the most. > Please, don't waste time of developers on nonsense politics. Please, don't conflate cia stats with the the qualities that should be a prerequisite of council membership. With each of the people who has previously served on the council, you need to examine what that person achieved within the council. Does it really matter what the person did outside of their council work, since they could have done that without being on the council? -- Richard Brown -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list