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[66.68.34.247]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id u5-v6sm8075428otc.1.2018.07.02.08.03.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Mon, 02 Jul 2018 08:03:38 -0700 (PDT) Sender: William Hubbs Received: (nullmailer pid 16011 invoked by uid 1000); Mon, 02 Jul 2018 15:03:37 -0000 Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 10:03:37 -0500 From: William Hubbs To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council nominee 2018/19 questions Message-ID: <20180702150337.GA15912@linux1.home> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org References: <1529997071.2250.6.camel@gentoo.org> <1530087907.849.13.camel@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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1530087907.849.13.camel@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.4 (2018-02-28) X-Archives-Salt: 2bdb51f4-873f-48a1-8c0a-1c39d93afe55 X-Archives-Hash: 0ac41feeda7a23684c8a76ebdb47e188 --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:25:07AM +0200, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > Three more questions from me: >=20 >=20 > 1. Do you believe that Council members should respect the requests of > the developer community even if they disagree with them? Or should > Council members decide based on their own judgment of arguments > presented? >=20 > Example: there's a heated debate, and the majority of respondents > request that X is implemented. However, after reading all the arguments > you don't think that X is a good idea but you haven't managed to > convince others. Would you vote for X (as your electorate demands) > or against it (as you believe is better for the distro)? =20 In my experience, most of the time, things are not as clear-cut as this; there can be many things to consider. For example, suppose that the people demanding x are not part of the team that maintains the packages that would make x happen, and suppose that making x happen requires custom patches which get rejected by upstream developers. In this case, is it really better to force maintainers to do custom work or vote against x? I think this type of decision should be made on a case-by-case basis. > 2. Do you believe that the Council should proactively research the state > of affairs and make decisions whenever they believe the direction > of the distribution needs to be adjusted? Or should it be passive > and avoid involvement unless developers explicitly request Council's > intervention? =20 I feel that most of the time the council should intervene only at the request of developers. The developers know their packages better than we do, and I think we should trust them. Innovation tends to come from the developers, not the council. > 3. Do you believe the developer community should hold the power > to veto or dissolve the Council at any point? Provided there's a global > developer vote agreeing on that. =20 Yes, the developers already have the ability to disband the council if they want to do this. They could replace glep 39 at any point. Also, I am not opposed to the idea of a general resolution. 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