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

[Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org>]

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On 2019.06.15 11:00, Andrew Savchenko wrote:
> 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:

[snip]

I don't that is correct but it may not matter to the rest of the discussion.

When drobbins left in 2004, the Foundation was formed to take over the 
assets of Gentoo Technologies Inc., which had owned Gentoos assets
while drobbins was BDFL.

At that time the TLPL, without the BDFL continued to look after the 
technical issues. For whatever reasons, the TLPL became ineffective
and the council was formed to address that.

I don't have any data to suggest that the Foundation endorsed the 
councils terms of reference or otherwise.   

The point is, the Gentoo power balance just happened as a series of
responses to local problems at the time. 

> 1. The same person can now be in the Gentoo Council and the Trustees
> board.

Its not new. drobbins was both BDFL (TLPL Manager) and one of the
directors of Gentoo Technologies Inc.

When the Foundation bylaws were adopted in 2008, the thinking was 
that the council would put forward project ideas that needed to be funded 
and separation of duties requires that those that want to spend the money 
should be a separate group from those that approve it.

Its never been an issue since to my knowledge, council as a body, have 
never requested funding for anything.

It would still be a bad thing if the trustees was a subset of the council.
The two roles require different skill sets, so I don't think overlap is either
useful or desirable. 

> Best regards,
> Andrew Savchenko
> 

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Regards,

Roy Bamford
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