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 1JyPIT-0002Jm-JH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBC28E06C8; Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C51CEE06C8 for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.28.2.122] (bl4-214-37.dsl.telepac.pt [81.193.214.37]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F243D66C99 for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4832AB03.7010308@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:42:11 +0000 From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080504) 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 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-project] GLEP 39, metastructure and elections X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f8927ada-f2e3-42d4-ad29-5c783919bcf6 X-Archives-Hash: 7254b3ec2f4f4d6618d627b66e827a27 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In the fallout of last council's meeting, I've been looking at our policies and I have a few thoughts. I've been looking at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/metastructure/index.xml and I think that the decision that lead to the creation of the council should probably have been documented there, together with some provisions about meta-structure changes. One point that has been raising some arguments and that people don't seem to agree about is what is required to change GLEP39. As a GLEP, although an Informational GLEP, it should probably follow the rules of the GLEPs. However, I think the decision that lead to the GLEP and that created the council, should be set as a policy under the meta-structure project and that it should include a provision stating that "any change to the meta-structure of the Gentoo project will require a discussion by and a global vote of the developer community". I think the meta-structure project is the best place to document the overall organization of the Gentoo management structure and to define its policies. This would allow us to have a GLEP describing the process by which a certain change to the meta-structure was decided and the provisions of such a proposal, without having special rules for such GLEPs. Obviously any change to the policy would need to be discussed under the rules defined on the meta-structure project and if and when it was approved, it would be possible to update / add a new Informational GLEP following the standard procedure for GLEPs. Thus, such a GLEP would reflect current policy and not define it. Since the last election for the Foundation, I've been entertaining the idea to create an elections project for Gentoo. The purpose of such a project would be to hold a list of people willing to serve as officials for elections, to document the procedures to run an election and to discuss / maintain any scripts for conducting an election. The project would include a "pool" of potential officers for an election and before any election, the number of required officers would be selected to run that specific election. The elections project would be responsible to organize the elections for the council and the Foundation and could also help organize any other project's election - if asked to do so. To anyone thinking that to have a project to run elections is overkill, I would like to present my experience as an election officer that running an election is not that simple, in particular if past officers are not around and the documentation about the procedures is scarce. My hope is that having such a project would help gather documentation on the procedures and promote a better understanding on the process, making it simpler to new persons to run an election. I also hope that it will help streamline elections by eliminating the wait for finding officers for an election. - -- Regards, Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkgyqwIACgkQcAWygvVEyALqQQCePtlEF/NfwizLobAX8JyjKVEP +FsAoJ0lHihGRHZNuMPWm0B9HhFv+u7G =bb4c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org mailing list