On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:12 +0100, Georg Witwer wrote: ... > So I am here to ask your support to make djay our 11th member on the > next Userreps/Userrel meeting this Saturday...
My only concern is that if this process gets abused, a majority of userreps could expel a minority and handpick their replacements to match their own ideas... but then again, this isn't a money / power controlling seat, so I counter myself with "would that really ever happen"? and "so what if it did"?! I see that on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/userreps/index.xml members are elected each year? In which case I think my above concern would be even less a reality, as ousted members could raise support for the next election anyway. However, perhaps you should have a short policy for election and replacement of members, so that if you ever are questioned, at least you can say "We did it by the book". > Building up a team with people that hardly know each other is not an > easy task. It took us quite some time to get to know each other and to > find a way to work somehow efficiently together. We are different to > any other project in Gentoo land because we did not pick our team by > ourself, but let others, you the user community, choose our team. > That's the way it has to be of course but it's a handicap, > nevertheless. But keeping variety is essential, especially for gentoo. I doubt adding one unknown member to the team will throw you all back to the days when you didn't know each other. That one new member will more quickly get to know the group (and vice versa) than the time a whole new group would take. So perhaps the "next on the list" is a good idea? However, it seems like djay-il deserves a bit of recognition for his efforts, and placing him in the position would do that. So, I've said both yes and no! In the end, I guess the decision is up to the team what method they choose. cya, -- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. -- Otto Von Bismarck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
