From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QnxXT-0001pg-5N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:48:31 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39B6E21C139; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:48:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [83.161.135.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE22721C0E2 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tefnut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:980:57a5:1:211:24ff:fe37:e46e] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QnxWz-0007BO-Vn for gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:48:03 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:47:51 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years Message-ID: <20110801184751.GS20656@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (Darwin 8.11.0, VIM - Vi IMproved 7.3) Organization: Gentoo Foundation, Inc. X-Content-Scanned: by amun.cheops.ods.org (Exim Exiscan) using SpamAssassin and ClamAV X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f0e61e95ea9027d7c937e5ae956adb0d After the new council was setup, a "introductionary" meeting was held to get the new council members going a bit. Since this meeting replaced an ordinary meeting, it is considered a waste of time by some [1]. Roy Bamford suggested to change the scheme to "Two year terms and elections every year for half the seats." This requires an update to GLEP39 [2] on all points that reference the one year period of the council. It requires addition of the two overlapping terms, and dealing with the "less than 50% attendance" point. Voting for this point makes little to no sense for as long as the implications to GLEP39 and possibly other organisational issues aren't clear. Hence, at this stage, brief discussion by the council in the next meeting can only make it clear if the current council has the intention to supports a change like this or not. Please discuss how to implement a change like this. Starting point would be to see what changes would be necessary to GLEP39. Also, whether the term would have to become 2 year, or the votings be twice a year. All contributions, objections or alternative ideas welcome. [1] http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/msg_57311d9d940106bc9b4c039707e0c953.xml [2] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0039.html -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level