[gentoo-project] Questions for Gentoo Council nominees: Power balance

[Andrew Savchenko <bircoph@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 12:42:20 +0300 Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Last year we had a good initiative: it addition to (or even instead
> of) manifests nominees were asked questions by voters. So let's
> continue this year.
> 
> I propose to have one question per thread spawned by this e-mail to
> keep discussion focused. If you have multiple questions, please
> start multiple threads. If your question was already asked, please
> join a thread.
> 
> I'll ask my questions in subsequent e-mails.

Gentoo power balance was carefully crafted over the years. However
during last year that balance was disrupted:

1. The same person can now be in the Gentoo Council and the Trustees
board.
2. QA can now bypass Comrel on bans.

What is your opinion on this?
Should this balance be left as is?
If it should be tuned, then how?

I'm worried about that some people or teams may gain too much power
and misuse it.

One possible solution will be to limit number of teams or roles a
single person may participate, but this may result in some teams
outnumbered since many have lack of manpower problem.

A better solution may be "single person => single vote" rule, so
everyone is free to participate where and how they want, but in a
case when multiple teams are involved in processing an issue a
single person may vote only once and it is up to them to choose
using what role.

Best regards,
Andrew Savchenko

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