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gentoo-council To: gentoo-council@g.o From: Richard Freeman
<rich0@g.o> Subject: Re: Voting by mail Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010
07:42:05 -0500 On 02/25/2010 09:42 PM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: >
In a few words here is the problem. Is it a good idea to allow
council > members to vote by email when they're not able to make
it to the > meeting?  How the council wants to run itself should
really be up to each council  - the devs elected them, and I'm
not sure we really need a GLSA/etc to  govern how it operates
beyond the general charter.  Personally, I've found that board
meetings tend to work best when  they're just formalizations of
decisions that have already been made.  If an item needs
discussion, then it should be discussed, and probably  not voted
unless there is a rush (since in theory everybody should think
about it and maybe allow for general dev input).  If an item
needs  voting, then it should be voted, and not discussed (since
discussion  should ha