On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 08:26:17PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > The entire process has been handled in an exceedingly poor manner. > I'm not talking about the substantive question of interpretation of > the constitution, here, I'm talking about the nuts and bolts handling > of ballots and announcements and keeping people informed about what > exactly the status is, how to vote, and so forth. > > I feel like we have a person listed as "Project Secretary", but no > actual person actually doing much towards that job. It's not a huge > job, but it's very important that it be done in a manner that inspires > confidence in the fairness and legitimacy of the process, and what's > happening here is that there is a stone wall of silence (or maybe it's > inattention), a lot of confusion, a very important issue going to vote > on a very confusing ballot, a claim that the vote itself is invalid > due to expiration of a time limit, and several other problems.
One of those several other problems is the ambiguity in the constitution for which a resolution and ammendment have been proposed and received adiquate seconds twice now, and has yet to even be acknowledged (and based on comments made on irc, I believe may have been deliberately ignored in an attempt to expedite a process that has already taken too long..) Given that it is clear people wish that issue to go to a vote and it is necessary to concretely settle the issue surrounding the current (IMO completely botched) vote, I think this is a very dangerous thing. I've been saying this for some time now, and many people have drawn many conclusions from it which are not true. The fact is that we have a Project Secretary who has become too busy to maintain his office. IWJ is more accessable at the moment. In the meantime, important issues are languishing due to his inaction - be it intentional or otherwise. I feel it's hurting the project's morale in the short run and our credibility in the long run. > We need a Project Secretary who keeps up with the job, or asks the > Technical Committee Chair to step in. This is a very important job, > and it needs to get done, with a speed and efficiency that inspires > confidence. I have no illusions that the job is an easy one to fill. That said, if Darren can't handle it, he should step down and find someone who can. (I am _NOT_ volunteering...) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 <Knghtbrd> you know, Linux needs a platform game starring Tux <Knghtbrd> kinda Super Marioish, but with Tux and things like little cyber bugs and borgs and that sort of thing ... <Knghtbrd> And you have to jump past billgatus and hit the key to drop him into the lava and then you see some guy that looks like a RMS or someone say "Thank you for rescuing me Tux, but Linus Torvalds is in another castle!"
