Gentoo Council

1. Project Description

The elected Gentoo Council decides on global issues and policies that affect multiple projects in Gentoo. It also serves as an appeal court for disciplinary decisions. The Council members are elected for a year and must hold monthly public meetings. This form of management was created via GLEP 39.

2. Developers

Developer	Nickname	Role
Wernfried Haas	amne	Member ( Council member )
Petteri Räty	betelgeuse	Member ( Council member )
Donnie Berkholz	dberkholz	Member ( Council member )
Diego Pettenò	flameeyes	Member ( Council member )
Luca Barbato	lu_zero	Member ( Council member )
Roy Marples	uberlord	Member ( Council member )
Mike Frysinger	vapier	Member ( Council member )

All developers can be reached by e-mail using [email protected].

3. Meeting logs

Meetings are typically held on the 2nd Thursday of each month, at 2000 UTC (1500 EST) in the #gentoo-council irc channel on irc.freenode.net. They may be pushed back to 3rd Thursdays and/or to 2000 UTC as needed to accommodate council member availability.

Date	Participants	AWOL	Log	Summary
October 11, 2007	amne, betelgeuse, dberkholz, flameeyes, lu_zero (proxied by josejx), uberlord, vapier		20071011	20071011
August 16, 2007	KingTaco, kugelfang, robbat2, UberLord, vapier, wolf31o2	jaervosz	20070816	20070816
July 12, 2007	KingTaco, kugelfang (proxied by spb), robbat2, UberLord, wolf31o2	jaervosz, vapier	20070712	20070712
June 14, 2007	KingTaco, jaervosz, robbat2, UberLord (proxied by Flameeyes), vapier, wolf31o2 (proxied by agaffney)	Kugelfang	20070614	20070614
May 10, 2007	KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang (proxied by fmccor), robbat2, UberLord, vapier, wolf31o2		20070510	20070510
April 24, 2007 (impromptu meeting on multiple version suffixes)	kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2		20070424	20070424
April 12, 2007	KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, UberLord, vapier, wolf31o2		20070412	20070412
March 15, 2007 (CoC special meeting)	KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, UberLord, vapier, wolf31o2		20070308	20070308
March 8, 2007	KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, UberLord, vapier, wolf31o2		20070308	20070308
February 8, 2007	Flameeyes, KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang (proxied by spb), vapier, wolf31o2	robbat2	20070208	20070208
January 11, 2007	Flameeyes (proxied by UberLord), KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, wolf31o2	vapier	20070111	20070111
December 14, 2006	Flameeyes, KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, vapier, wolf31o2		20061214	20061214
November 9, 2006	Flameeyes, KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, vapier, wolf31o2 (proxied by agaffney)		20061109	20061109
October 19, 2006	Flameeyes, KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, vapier, wolf31o2		20061019	20061019
September 14, 2006	Flameeyes, KingTaco, kloeri, Kugelfang, robbat2, vapier, wolf31o2		20060914	20060914
August 17, 2006	Koon, solar, SwifT, agriffis, seemant	azarah, vapier	20060817	20060817
July 20, 2006	azarah, Koon, solar, SwifT, vapier	agriffis, seemant	20060720	20060720
June 15, 2006	Koon, seemant, solar, SwifT, vapier	agriffis, azarah	20060615	20060615
May 11, 2006	agriffis, azarah, seemant, solar, SwifT, vapier	Koon	20060511	20060511
April 20, 2006	agriffis, azarah (proxied by UberLord), Koon, seemant, solar, SwifT (proxied by fox2mike), vapier (proxied by JoseJX)		20060309	20060309
March 9, 2006	agriffis, Koon, seemant (proxied by dsd), solar (proxied by cshields), SwifT, vapier	azarah	20060309	20060309
February 9, 2006	agriffis, azarah, Koon, seemant, solar, SwifT, vapier		20060209	20060209
January 12, 2006	agriffis, Koon, seemant, solar, SwifT, vapier	azarah	20060112	20060112
December 15, 2005	agriffis, azarah (proxied by vapier), Koon (proxied by jaervosz), seemant, solar, SwifT, vapier		20051215	20051215
November 15, 2005	azarah, Koon, seemant, solar, SwifT, vapier	agriffis	20051115	20051115
October 13, 2005	agriffis, azarah, Koon, seemant, solar (proxied by azarah), SwifT, vapier		20051013	20051013
September 15, 2005	agriffis, azarah, Koon, seemant, solar, SwifT, vapier		20050915	20050915

4. Slacker marks

Rationale

To ensure that the council stays active, the chosen metastructure model says that if a council member (or their appointed proxy) fails to show up for two consecutive meetings, they are marked as a slacker.

If a council member who has been marked a slacker misses any further meeting (or their appointed proxy doesn't show up), they lose their position and a new election is held to replace that person. The 'slacker' marker is reset when a member is elected.

If any meeting has less than 50% attendance by council members, a new election for all places must be held within a month.

Current slacker status

none

5. Resources

Resources offered by the Council project are:

6. Voting Process

Mundane Details

Council elections generally happen once a year
The council is composed of seven elected members
Nominations are allowed from July 1st 0000 UTC to July 31st 2359 UTC
Only Gentoo developers may be nominated
Anyone can nominate (nominating yourself is OK)
Nominees must accept their nomination before voting begins
Voting is opened from August 1st 0000 UTC to August 31st 2359 UTC
Only Gentoo developers may vote
Gentoo uses the Condorcet method of voting

Previous Voting Results

The distributions were generated by a ruby script courtesy of Ciaran McCreesh.

Date	Raw	Processed
September 2005	council-2005-master.txt [^] council-2005-rank.txt	council-2005-nominees.html (also links to platforms if any) council-2005-vote-distribution.txt council-2005-grapher.rb [^] council-2005-results.txt [^]
September 2006	council-2006-master.txt [^ ^] council-2006-rank.txt [^ ^]	council-2006-nominees.xml council-2006-vote-distribution.txt council-2006-grapher.rb [^ ^] council-2006-results.txt [^ ^]
September 2007	council-2007-master.txt council-2007-rank.txt	council-2007-nominees.xml council-2007-vote-distribution.txt council-2007-grapher.rb council-2007-results.txt

Summary: The elected Gentoo Council decides on global issues and policies that affect multiple projects in Gentoo.

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