On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:35 PM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <zeroch...@gentoo.org> wrote: > The council really doesn't have the ability to just instantly vote on > things outside of a meeting. The transparency of the body requires > announcements about meetings, and their topics, with a reasonable amount > of notice. It simply isn't possible to maintain these things and have > the flexibility to instantly vote on things. Emergency action can be > taken by many bodies, devrel, userrel, but the council is not expected > to be the "quick fix" for things.
I find it interesting that the Trustees, which are a legally regulated body, can take action between meetings, but we feel that the Council, which is not a legally regulated body, cannot. Legally the foundation can even take action without any of the trustees present (it just requires a LOT of members to support it). I'm not suggesting that we should just issue rapid decisions in the middle of a flamewar. However, if we feel that all sides of a debate have spoken we can perhaps announce a pending decision on -dev, evaluate any responses, and then vote. Council members who do not feel sufficient time has passed to evaluate the situation can vote to postpone the decision. In order to pass a majority would still be needed, so if 2 people vote aye, 3 vote nay, and 2 vote delay, then we delay until one side or the other obtains a majority (as with any body, the default is basically no action until there is a majority in favor). I don't suggest that this should be the ideal method of operation. I just see it as an option. It wasn't even my idea... Rich
