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 1Qqq8R-0006Xu-RH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:30:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A146521C3A9; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amun.cheops.ods.org (amun.cheops.ods.org [83.161.135.166]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A38DD21C3A7 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 17:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nut.cheops.ods.org ([2001:980:57a5:1:ca2a:14ff:fe35:7a00] helo=gentoo.org) by amun.cheops.ods.org with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Qqq3N-0005ei-1V for gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:25:21 +0200 Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 19:25:20 +0200 From: Fabian Groffen To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years Message-ID: <20110809172520.GC24618@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org References: <20110801184751.GS20656@gentoo.org> <4E3735C8.6000500@gentoo.org> <20110802063633.GB20656@gentoo.org> <20110802154256.GA5661@linux1> <20110802161558.GD20656@gentoo.org> <20110804200806.GF4840@comet.ucsd.edu> <20110805065854.GV20656@gentoo.org> <20110805074937.GB4475@comet.ucsd.edu> <20027.50754.135352.913960@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> <20110809140531.GC25611@comet.mayo.edu> 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 In-Reply-To: <20110809140531.GC25611@comet.mayo.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (Darwin 11.0.0, 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: 21e54faf47bbc01b85dc9662590c2863 On 09-08-2011 09:05:31 -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Let's assume the following scenario: > > The developer base only wants 3 people on the council and disagrees with > the views of the other 4. But since 7 are required to be on it, they > must vote for 7 or get stuck in an infinite loop of reopening > nominations. The undesired 4 people could block the other 3 from > proposing any changes to GLEP 39. If the developer base wants that, it's probably not hard to find 7 people to run for council and get elected, isn't it? I don't see the block here. -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level