* Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-04-08
@ 2018-04-03 0:40 99% ` Matthias Maier
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From: Matthias Maier @ 2018-04-03 0:40 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-project
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018, at 17:11 CDT, Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> wrote:
> [...]
I have the feeling that quite a bit of the current heated discussion
(about whatever) stems from a perceived lack of "democracy" in our
processes.
Therefore, I suggest as meeting agenda that the council discusses the
introduction of a "general resolution" similarly to the one that Debian
has [1]. Debian's version would have to be adapted to Gentoo specifics
but in short a possible version could include
- overruling council (and comrel?) decisions with a 2:1 majority
- a vote of no confidence forcing council reelections
- accepting/withdrawing/... GLEPs with a 2:1 majority
A vote could be initiated by
- the council itself
- a sufficient number of developers seconding the motion
Eligible voters would be Gentoo developers.
I am happy to author a first draft proposal GLEP. If this idea finds
enough supporters on the developer side and on the council, I suggest to
proceed as follows:
- let council accept the GLEP
- initiate a "general resolution" (or however we end up naming the
child) asking to support the GLEP formally.
I am tired of hearing that my decisions and that of my colleagues on the
council would be due to some agenda, sinister behavior or
whatever. A "general resolution" would introduce a nice mechanism that
would deter loud single voices ("the majority of developers is against
this and that") and let just speak the body of developers itself. I
suggest we make the bar of initiating such a vote relatively high (but
by no means impossible) so that we don't get swamped with too much
stuff, though.
Best,
Matthias
[1] https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-4
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