From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 21E131580B9 for ; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5343CE0963; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:42:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1B26FE0891; Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:42:32 +0000 (UTC) From: Ulrich Mueller To: =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBHw7Nybnk=?= Cc: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-nfp@lists.gentoo.org, Gentoo Elections Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-nfp] Gentoo Foundation: A second election In-Reply-To: <5e2367623ddf6a1e11228571a047b6516370681e.camel@gentoo.org> (=?utf-8?Q?=22Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny=22's?= message of "Mon, 23 Aug 2021 14:27:14 +0200") References: <8303d85f4ef22563acceda2d09976410aa417a1c.camel@gentoo.org> <5e2367623ddf6a1e11228571a047b6516370681e.camel@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2021 16:42:25 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 8f41cc00-296a-41ab-946e-fb314c4ee8fd X-Archives-Hash: 9bf2b30664728ded8f76843743ac47e5 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, Micha=C5=82 G=C3=B3rny wrote: > On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 14:00 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >> What would be the rationale for having different rules in the second >> election? >>=20 >> For reference, the procedure for Council elections is this [1]: >>=20 >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0If the pseudo-candidate '_reopen_nominations' appears = in 7th place >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0or higher those candidates that rank above '_reopen_no= minations' >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0will be the current council. A second period of nomina= tions will >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0be opened for the remaining council seats. No third pe= riod of >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0nominations will be opened in the event '_repoen_nomin= ations' >> =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0ranks higher than the candidates necessary to fill the= council. > Honestly, this seems unclear to me. Does that mean that Council will > have less members than 7? Yes, this is how I would read it, and I think the full log of the meeting fully clarifies that this was the intention. > IIRC the original concern raised at the time was that we didn't want > to leave seats empty. Since Trustees can fill the vacancies with their > own choices, it made no sense to reject candidates in the second > election, and we wanted a fixed number of elections to ensure we can > fit them into fixed AGM date. If Trustees can fill the vacancies, then there's no point in omitting _reopen_nominations. They could still pick any candidates from below. So, I think the procedure as announced by antarus makes sense. Ulrich --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFDBAEBCAAtFiEEtDnZ1O9xIP68rzDbUYgzUIhBXi4FAmEjs9EPHHVsbUBnZW50 b28ub3JnAAoJEFGIM1CIQV4uCHEIALQPas+2ivvUmqSui5suMM0g1yPyjt9nCtRY /P3px9jM6uzHiynU9ykng7SsRUILyFceNcC/e8d6q7dSx6gV3IVgA06apfIpLEdO 7/xqnrBOXnrYqf2TNlSUWG/IefNaLEBG5o6i21m7bM7k/ACLYPjHqPKb4N/WZYJL 7gDo3/DZFSJYGI4Ma+y1BOx0HdSRX5gdLjitGcDQLjhu3+JNajUOeJFBZ0KZBvao ISWM4c4a9vf83AgKq+3nLL9r7ws4xXPcrs5sS2cCoAyLHuIFMXnXcPbiE1muk/OR 6vVdmuiivCPbT0oiWA7C9bdZhGYG+R/GPpT/Si/NX5fSXD9gEj8= =qEdk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--