>>>>> On Wed, 29 Mar 2023, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> Some time ago ajak and I had proposed a series of changes for GLEP 39 in
> [1] and [2]. These will require an all-developers vote, but I think the
> council should discuss the changes first and maybe pre-approve them.

> In particular, the changes are:

> - Update title [3]
> - Updating GLEP 39 requires an all-developers vote [4]
> - Replace leaving council members by next in line [5]
> - Council members must be developers [6]
> - A meeting must dissolve if not quorate [7]
> - Projects need not have a lead [8]
> - Drop hard requirement of yearly lead elections [9]
> - Add summary of changes [10]

> Most of them were discussed previously in council meetings or
> on the mailing lists. See the commit messages for pointers to these
> discussions.

The update of GLEP 39 was discussed in yesterday's council meeting, and
there was consensus that we should proceed with these changes.

The only point that was discussed was the requirement of a quorum for
future changes, which wasn't specified in the previous version. The
attached version proposes two requirements (which are basically the same
as the ones in GLEP 77):
- ratio of positive to negative at least 2:1, and
- number of positive votes at least 1/4 of the number of developers.

I also took as consensus from yesterday's discussion that these
requirements don't apply retroactively, i.e. the upcoming vote will only
need a simple majority.

My suggestion is that we discuss these changes on this mailing list
until 2023-04-23; then I would ask the election team to organize a vote.

Attached are the full text of the proposed new version and a diff
relative to the active version. Individual commits can be seen at:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/log/?h=glep39

Ulrich

> [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/c23c228ac508d19c671da4e4d23c4880
> [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-project/message/60ca5dac5336b30d71abadaa28bc90ad
> [3] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=5ddb7140a90543185dbf05731cdedad83e412fc9
> [4] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=50a99510a47016ab0ecadd46dca4f604984c6f13
> [5] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=16cc239ad8f68e1d8218409b2aa17c148155d0a3
> [6] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=7077c51ad626c2ead5ed95497a54cf78e311f14b
> [7] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=0a8d6ae35dea6f7f4a32d3fbc2b6404935660be2
> [8] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=fc4d512dba8e4502eec244511f1974e119c56fec
> [9] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=52bdf9a83a72e137c148fb4c86a9fa8602649fa1
> [10] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/glep.git/commit/?h=glep39&id=0ecd972919c8489070a79746eefa4b3e50b4cbc4