From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwmIJ-0004tH-DT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 22:51:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91D15E04E6; Thu, 15 May 2008 22:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vms173005pub.verizon.net (vms173005pub.verizon.net [206.46.173.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B72E04E6 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 22:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([68.238.184.222]) by vms173005.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0K0X009SELV1QVS1@vms173005.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 17:45:01 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567671240CD; Thu, 15 May 2008 18:51:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 18:51:01 -0400 From: Richard Freeman Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] Special meeting [WAS: Council meeting summary for 8 May 2008] In-reply-to: <20080515213819.20bfc350@anaconda.krait.us> To: Ferris McCormick Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <482CBE55.4060205@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 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20080508233328.GA8896@comet> <20080515204913.GA22285@comet> <482CAB54.2010204@gentoo.org> <20080515213819.20bfc350@anaconda.krait.us> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) X-Archives-Salt: d63ca2b7-436c-4aba-93c7-bcb845672482 X-Archives-Hash: 3ad6fc599c15c45fed73d104b3c7f7ed Ferris McCormick wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008 17:29:56 -0400 > Richard Freeman wrote: >>> >> Did this meeting have sufficient notice to be considered an official >> meeting? Normally bylaws that govern matters like these also stipulate >> that meetings have a certain notice process to ensure that everybody >> knows about them. > > It was announced at the last meeting, so it had one week notice. Yes, but was everybody there? If not the only effective notice was in the summary. I'm not sure that everybody would have necessarily read that. In any case - if in doubt what value is there in holding another council election? It would seem that the purpose of this clause is to keep an inactive council from holding up gentoo as a whole. I don't think that is really the situation here. In any case, the council could just revise the GLEP to ammend this clause if necessary. Or whatever. It isn't like the council is a legal body in any sense - it is important that they have the respect of the development community, but I don't think that most devs are eager for new elections. The only body in gentoo that needs to strictly follow legal requirements would be the trustees. -- gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org mailing list