From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QrrW3-0001Ht-Ae for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:11:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D580121C0E8; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:10:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D8921C0A6 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A30761B4034 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:10:47 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.018 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.018 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.514, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-4, 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 AfpSVyMsBSvc for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:10:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C561B4062 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:10:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QrrVU-0002MS-Ux for gentoo-project@gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:10:36 +0200 Received: from 91.85.184.245 ([91.85.184.245]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:10:36 +0200 Received: from slong by 91.85.184.245 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2011 15:10:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org From: Steven J Long Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years Followup-To: gmane.linux.gentoo.project Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:12:40 +0100 Organization: Friendly-Coders Message-ID: References: <20110801184751.GS20656@gentoo.org> <4E3735C8.6000500@gentoo.org> <20110802063633.GB20656@gentoo.org> <20110802154256.GA5661@linux1> <20110802161558.GD20656@gentoo.org> <20110804200806.GF4840@comet.ucsd.edu> <20110805065854.GV20656@gentoo.org> <20110805074937.GB4475@comet.ucsd.edu> <20027.50754.135352.913960@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.85.184.245 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3404a27cddebe41b1088d2c1cecd044c Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> Let's say I propose an idea that 80% of the council likes but 80% >> of developers want. This doesn't seem unreasonable since I was very >> highly ranked in voting with a platform that involves totally >> changing our leadership structure, and yet the council insists it >> cannot change GLEP 39. I would be pretty pissed if most of Gentoo >> wanted something but the "cabal" at the top didn't even let them >> make the choice. > > I've read this paragraph twice, but I still fail to understand it. > Why do you call it a "cabal" if there is a large majority both amongst > council members and devs in general? > I think it's a typo-- the first line should read: >> Let's say I propose an idea that 80% of the council _dislikes_ but 80% >> of developers want. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)