From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C24291381F3 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E71A1E07BA; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:59:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 44B59E079B for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:59:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.4.5] (blfd-5d822a03.pool.mediaWays.net [93.130.42.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: hasufell) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F219933E448 for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:59:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51C067C2.5010007@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:59:30 +0200 From: hasufell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130606 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo: growing pains & the future. References: <20130616212124.GA29293@orbis-terrarum.net> <51C058CC.8030304@gentoo.org> <20130618141545.667d8dbb@googlemail.com> <51C064F2.6080902@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <51C064F2.6080902@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6a1pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bbba09ff-ab0c-439e-95e7-7590adc70192 X-Archives-Hash: afb1a03f3738af0fd7dad30ef0007379 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/18/2013 03:47 PM, Anthony G. Basile wrote: > On 06/18/2013 09:15 AM, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Jun 2013 > 14:55:40 +0200 hasufell wrote: >>>> A tiny idea to improve the council just came to my mind: 1-2 >>>> representatives of the user community should be voted in. IMO >>>> there are a enough well known personalities in #gentoo, >>>> #gentoo-chat, from the forums or elsewhere. > The last time something like that was tried, we ended up with a > bunch of non-Gentoo-using prolific Off The Wall posters being > selected. That didn't exactly work out well. > > -- Ciaran McCreesh > > I was going to caution against this too. I've had similar > experiences on college committees where faculty invited students to > participate. They really didn't understand the issues and wasted > our time with non-sequitors. It was probably equally frustrating > to them because they tried but could not contribute. I understand > that some contributors are more active than some devs, but how > would the process differentiate? > That proposal cannot stand alone. Please respond to the concept I was pointing out, not a single point. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.20 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRwGfCAAoJEFpvPKfnPDWz1h0H/jCu+Ybgs+L82INw32utw9bM ANcp2pEwExsJcLLWaRQRpY889/FygwIIxfFaeIcstAqNMt8FwwQ1Yh+0MkLF2M5T sR3t9NQJV/TQqaD4fofO9IdPn628+5JGd0HUIAMkLM3sxl73apI6WfS2kh5ycHVN Or+0RA48Zwo3XeXvXy7gDC+1JoKkC1goRf7i7pzlYq8tzAnlLnY2GQpT7z9j42bl 0sjV6SBl6tPN+Q9rtg0qqdQCq8aOGLz5uuLLq+gXp1LFrp1ytGCyrlkSXRJPij47 t4ZuiL1PDHRexJBkpa2DBdyJ1MuJr/GHpAs8102QYpbkc7U63pARIToC7Y6gnbc= =M79G -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----