On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 13:41 +0100, Alex Howells wrote: [snip] > I often don't agree with him, but can't help but respect the work he does. > > I would like to see Council move towards a more compressed meeting > format -- people presenting arguments need to work out their stuff > before bringing it up in the meeting, and to allow for quick > turn-around of decisions I'd suggest fortnightly meetings which are > time-limited to 60 minutes each. A prioritized schedule determines > which order we deal with issues in and anything not getting attention > is bumped 2 weeks, with the priority adjusted if necessary to ensure > it gets attention then. > > Each issue should be limited to between 5-20 minutes. If people can't > get through the politics and debate in the allotted time then it > should either get bumped 2 weeks and given another 5-20 minutes, or we > should table a special meeting to allow a full 60-90 minutes *just* to > decide that one issue and nothing else. > > Sitting around in #gentoo-council for 3-4 hours every month isn't > conducive to progress, it's going to make people get tired/bored and > not pay proper attention and/or not bother to turn up, which just > leads to elections. Endless cycle?
++ From me on this one. If I were elected to the Council, I would do my best to get this happening. welp -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
