Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals

["Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>]

Am Montag, 12. Februar 2018, 03:29:49 CET schrieb Rich Freeman:
> 
> However, in the past the Council members who were on Comrel disagreed
> with this and recused themselves.  They can do that, but I think it is
> harmful.  I'm sure many reading my email think that my approach would
> be harmful.  That's ok - it is fine if a majority of Gentoo devs are
> wrong on something.  :)
> 

Rich, 

on an abstract level I agree fully with you on this. There's two things 
though.

1) Had I not recused myself in the appeal case a year (?) ago, then a 
discussion like the one now would have cast doubt on the appeal result. Since 
we like to senselessly bikeshed just about everything, that was predictable. 
So the outcome was cleaner this way.

2) It was rather amusing to leisurely stand on the side for a change and see 
you all wade through the mud, without having to do it myself once more. I 
think you can appreciate that since you handled nearly all the correspondence 
for the remaining "non-recused" council in that case...

Cheers, 
Andreas

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer 
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)