>
> From what I've seen, a common approach to conflict resolution is via the
> bug-tracker, or e-mails to comrel. These create 'paper trails' for us,
> so I don't think that's much of a problem in terms of discovery. The
> Trustees could suggest that official channels be used before petitioning
> them for a decision on Foundation membership.

You mean something like a "background check"?

Well, that might at least prevent that someone becomes foundation member "for 
contributions to gentoo" while being banned by comrel on gentoo infrastructure 
"for continous misbehaviour". (Yep that happened in the past.)

-- 
Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)