Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

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.

-- 
Rich