On 13/02/18 00:13, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 6:40 PM, M. J. Everitt <m.j.everitt@iee.org> wrote:
>> On 12/02/18 23:02, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>> Can you provide us with an example when such a scenario has happened
>>> in the past 12 years of council, or is the above purely hypothetical?
>>> Because in the latter case it is not an actual problem that needs to
>>> be solved.
>>>
>>> It is not a game of Nomic that we're playing here, but we are trying
>>> to run a distro. IMHO precluding council members from participating in
>>> projects isn't helpful. Or do we really want a council that is sitting
>>> in an ivory tower, completely detached from the daily distro work?
>>>
>> Uhm, what's the difference .. the council already live in their own land
>> separate from most of the developers, and definitely from the user
>> community at large ?
>>
>> Or at least, such is the perception .. [don't shoot the messenger and
>> all that]
>>
> Such is your perception.  Most developers just cast their votes, and
> hence the same council members keep getting re-elected.  I doubt that
> would happen if most developers considered them aloof, especially
> since the Council has always attracted a significant number of
> election candidates.
>
> You can't judge something like this by mailing list posts.
>
My synopsis is gathered from a number of conversations, Rich, and
definitely not the noise that emanates from both developers and
non-developers on /any/ of the mailing lists ..