On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 9:06 PM, Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> wrote:

> This is a request by two developers (and not by the council). But I
> would like to answer one of your questions.
>
>
> On Sun, Apr  8, 2018, at 19:11 CDT, zlg <zlg@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > To the Council:
> >
> > What makes you accountable to this community? Why should we trust or
> > respect you when you have nothing on the line except a title? What
> > happens next if these affirmations are made? What's your angle, your
> > real motivation?
>
> The Gentoo Developer community has used GLEP 39 [1] for its
> self-organization for the last 12 years. Our "real motivation" (speaking
> as individual developers) is to keep it that way.
>
>
> > How do you trust a Council member when they have nothing to lose by
> > acting against the community?
>
> I fail to see how trying to get an affirmation that the Gentoo
> Foundation is still on board with GLEP 39 is "acting against the
> community".
>
> We have had a very public case of prometheanfire pushing for dissolving
> the current metastructure and reorganizing the community under the
> Foundation. Andreas and I, personally, disagree with that.
>

I'm curious what the difference between 'discussing an idea' and 'pushing
for an idea' is.
I want a community where we can discuss ideas (even ideas the council or
you dislike) without it causing a major incident or people getting upset
about it.
What would you have people who have these ideas do differently?

-A


> Best,
> Matthias
>
> [1] https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0039.html
>