On Sat, 2019-07-13 at 06:17 -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> What are your plans regarding future relations between the trustees and the
> council?  I noted that the council isn't even mentioned in the bylaws

I've answered this in detail in my Manifesto [1].

Long story short, I believe the distribution should be self-governing,
and Foundation should support it without interfering unnecessarily. 
This means that Council makes the majority of the decisions regarding
Gentoo, and Trustees should work with the Council and respect
the decisions made by it.

[1] https://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/trustee-manifesto-2019.txt

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Best regards,
Michał Górny