Re: [gentoo-project] Why should you *not* vote on existing Council members

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2019 at 7:41 AM Thomas Deutschmann <whissi@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> During council meeting from 2019-05-12, we, the current running council,
> tried to make it very clear that we are really concerned about
> undertaker project's attitude expressed in pre-meeting talk in
> #gentoo-council on 2019-05-08, 2019-05-09 and during meeting. And it
> looks like you still haven't understand our point:
>
> You are lacking humanity.

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While we recognize that a language barrier may have resulted in this
statement being made more strongly than intended, it is still a
personal attack in nature.  When discussing application of policy it
is better to focus on the policy itself and its application, and less
on the individuals making the decisions.  If there are concerns with
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The fact that the discussion involves current/former council members
makes it important to try to set an example.

Since Proctors is still a fairly new concept we wish to clarify that:

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Rich