Doug Goldstein wrote: > All, > > The current council meetings have gotten completely out of hand for > weeks meetings have become nothing more then a continuation of the > senseless bicker-fest that have become the e-mail threads on GLEP54, > GLEP55, and EAPI-3 without any real progress or sense coming of them. > It's taken me a little bit to step up and put a stop to it but I fully > intend on putting a stop to it. The point of the council meetings is > to bring up a topic and decide on its merits whether it should be > brought into the Gentoo Project or not. I quote from the first line of > the Gentoo Council website: >
Well EAPI-3 not progressing is due to lack of people implementing features. > > 1) Agenda Topics are posted to the appropriate mailing lists at a > MINIMUM 7 days prior to the meeting. (That means the agenda must be > formed by this Thursday). ack > 1a) Any changes to the agenda should be ACK'd by the council members > (off list via the council alias). Changes can not occur less than 48 > hours from the meeting. ack > 2) The #gentoo-council channel become moderated as we had discussed > several times in the past. We can use this if we can't control the discussion otherwise. > 2a) Topics will be brought up and people wishing to address the > council and the developer body at large should speak to the day's > appointed moderator. We can take turns or I can do it (maybe it'll > keep my head from banging against the keyboard as it has in the past > watching the various non-council members argue completely non-agenda > items back and forth). > 2b) Requests are made in tells and honored in turn. The moderator will > announce to the channel who wishes to speak and the order they are in > and will efficiently work through the list. If you can not remain on > topic, you will lose your voice. > 3) Once discussion on the topic has concluded, the council members > will vote on the actions requested by the developer body. That does > not mean it is time for council members to concoct an entirely new > plan by the seat of their pants... which leads me to the next topic. > 4) Council members will now be expected to ACK the agenda on the > appropriate mailing lists at least 48 hours prior to the meeting. If > you can't, let the council know. You should be able to do this without > relying on your proxy, but your proxy may do this for you as well if > you have an extended away. > 4a) Failure to ACK the agenda will be noted on the meeting minutes. > 4b) Council members will be expected to formulate their thoughts in > reply to the agenda items and to research the discussion they wish to > have on the mailing list PRIOR to the meeting and not fly by the seat > of their pants. > 4c) "The first I heard of this and I need 4 weeks to research this." > or any variation of the quoted statement is no longer a valid > statement. The point of the meeting is to weigh and debate the items > before us now. Do your research PRIOR to the meeting, not during. ok Regards, Petteri PS. Let's try to keep threads on a single mailing list.
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