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Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Gentoo Council 2014 / 2015 election
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 2:30 PM, hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
> So you are basically saying a conflict of interest can happen and when
> it does, everyone will actually realize it and also act appropriately.
>
Well, if people don't do that, then you're up the creek no matter what
system of governance you come up with.
SOMEBODY has to make the final decision, and they can always have a
conflict of interest.
Unless half the council is in on the original offense, it really only
makes a difference if it is a close call. So, avoid doing things that
would tick off half the council and you should be fine. :)
This is no different than a majority of trustees being able to sell
the Foundation to your least favorite IT vendor. If you're going to
vote a bunch of untrustworthy individuals into office, then you might
not like the result.
I don't see a practical alternative. The kinds of skills that you
need to be a decent Trustee, Council member, or Comrel member overlap
significantly. We aren't exactly a huge organization. So, we either
have to accept overlap, or put people into these roles that we might
otherwise not want to. There is also QA and Infra to consider - do we
not allow anybody to be on more than one of these teams?
Ridh