From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K4tGb-0004Lk-FG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:55:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2742FE0580; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01662E0580 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:55:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8549667221 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:55:11 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.167 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.167 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-1.235, BAYES_50=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO=2.067] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6C55tkGsrE8b for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BA6264A10 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 07:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K4tGQ-0000up-Ps for gentoo-project@gentoo.org; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:55:02 +0000 Received: from 80.238.251.215 ([80.238.251.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:55:02 +0000 Received: from dev-zero by 80.238.251.215 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org From: Tiziano =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=FCller?= Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Re: [gentoo-dev] Nominations open for the Gentoo Council 2008/2009 Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:47:10 +0200 Organization: Gentoo Message-ID: References: <3c32f69c0806041700h42cc5110y34400ec34184e77c@mail.gmail.com> <4847B354.6090800@gentoo.org> <4848915D.60809@gentoo.org> <20080606060040.GB12196@comet> <87fxrrx8ae.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.238.251.215 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: db06b3eb-bd03-472e-99d0-26d886e74973 X-Archives-Hash: ab43c0f7f696f579bb2218394adadffd Graham Murray wrote: > Donnie Berkholz writes: > >> On 21:22 Thu 05 Jun , Richard Freeman wrote: >>> Here is a thought - maybe the council would be more active if we only >>> put >>> half the slots up for election every other year. I think part of the >>> problem is that with the council starting off new every year it takes >>> some >>> time for them to get a sense for their actual power. 1/6th of their >>> meetings are either their first meeting or their last meeting - which >>> aren't going to be big get-stuff-done meetings. >> >> I agree with this. The lack of continuity is a major problem. > > So maybe the rules should be changed to make it more like the local > councils here in the UK. Each Councilor serves for more than one year > (typically 3 or 4) and so each year only a proportion of seats on the > council are up for election. I'd rather say that either the council people have to prepare themselves better for the meetings or there must be more meetings. This isn't politics but IT business. Changes are being made quickly and easily. We don't need long processes but short ones. Voting every year should encourage people to take that serious. Cheers, Tiziano -- gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org mailing list