On 12/2/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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".
We as Userreps can only get rid of one of us if that person breaches the social contact that can be read on our project site, And if we would dismiss someone we would declare ourself quite thoroughly to the community and to Userrel too. But as Bo mentioned in the post above, it was Userrels decision. Antarus promised to post an announcement to this ML today.
> 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?
You are right about that. But keeping in mind that this might not be the only loss to our group in the next year (some of the userreps have not been too active, ie.) and if we have to keep on picking up people that haven't shown any interest in the project so far, it will slow us down. I think it would be fair to let us choose any substitute within the term, because a year really passes by fast and all of us will be judged on our work at the next election anyhow.
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.
Thanks, for your opinion. :) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
