On Sat, 17 May 2008 01:50:04 +0200
"Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
> <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > I realise you might not known any of this if you weren't around when
> > Gentoo's management structure was set up, but there's no need to be
> > such a twat when discussing it. So the answer to the question you
> > could have asked politely: you're locked into what's now known as
> > GLEP 39 until there's a global vote to replace it with something
> > else.
> 
> I realize you might not have known that I knew and that I totally
> disagreed. You're the one that's locked in a past that doesn't exist
> anymore. Gentoo is free to change and evolve and doesn't need your
> authorization. Nor mine. Gentoo will become whatever the council
> decides it should become until the next elections. At which point
> there will be another council. You're free to stay behind, that's your
> choice.

So you're saying the Council is free to entirely ignore the rules under
which it was elected, and instead say "We are now supreme dictators for
life"?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh