Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2014 / 2015 election

[hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org>]

Rich Freeman:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> From what I see you are on both council and comrel. I think that is a
>> conflict of interest.
>>
> 
> The term "conflict of interest" gets thrown around rather loosely IMHO.
> 
> A conflict of interest is when somebody stands to personally gain from
> a decision.  If somebody on the council or comrel banned you from an
> IRC channel, and you brought this to comrel, then it would be a
> conflict of interest if the accused party voted on their own case.
> Anything short of this really isn't a true conflict IMHO.
> 
> Many courts will hear appeals with a small number of judges with the
> possibility to appeal to a larger set of judges, and the original
> judges get to vote in both cases.  That isn't a conflict of interest -
> just division of labor.
> 
> When you appeal a Comrel case to the Council the purpose of the appeal
> is to decide what to do with the parties involved - it isn't a
> judgement on Comrel itself, though Comrel should be guided by the
> decision in any future actions it takes.
> 
> Anybody dissatisfied with a Comrel decision can appeal to Council,
> which is a group of 7 people selected by the developer community to
> represent them.
> 
> But, anyone is free to not vote for Comrel members.
> 

So you are basically saying a conflict of interest can happen and when
it does, everyone will actually realize it and also act appropriately.