Re: Re: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2014-08-12

[Denis Dupeyron <calchan@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 4:53 AM, Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 1.  Let the games project keep its policy, and anybody who wants to
> change this has to join the project and call for elections

This is the obvious answer to the question. I wonder why we're even
discussing it. Unless actions by $team conflict with our rules and/or
actions with other teams, issues within $team are to be solved from
within $team.

On the matter of calling for elections, since every project must hold
elections every year per GLEP 39, it's legitimate for the council to
call for an election when it doesn't happen. No need for anybody to
join the project and call for it. When I was a council member I would
regularly follow-up with lead status in TLPs, and have actually forced
elections in the KDE project in an amiable way once. No need to get
the big hammer of justice from the closet: just gather the people, get
them to vote, and problem solved. If the current and previous councils
had been doing their job as they should have, instead of flooding
mailing lists, we wouldn't be in that situation today.

Denis.