Georg Witwer wrote: > As you might have noticed or heard, cokehabit isn't part of the > Userreps project any longer. He and Userel obviously didn't get along > very well and there has been some troubles on IRC and on bugzilla, > which I didn't get a chance to see though. But I talked shortly with > cokehabit about it and he didn't object to leave the project, so we > have a vacant Userreps seat atm. > > Since this is the first time that one of us left, we have to find a > rule on how we are to restaff that vacant seat. Impov, there are three > different options that we have. We could either go thru the whole > voting process again, which seem to be quite some work and would > definitely need some time or we could simply ask the ones that where > next on the list from the initial vote, to see if they are still > interested in doing the job or we let the appointed Userreps decide > who they want to have in their team to work with. > > Even though the voting idea seems to be the logical thing to do, at > least to me when I thought about it first, it's the option I really > don't want to have and almost everyone from Userreps/Userrel agrees on > this point. It would just take to much time and effort, since we don't > want the mistakes of the first vote be repeated, like having better > announcements and getting the whole user community not just forum > peeps to vote. > > Picking the next one on the list that shows interest, is an option > that doesn't take much time and seems to be fair since they have > proven to have the support in the user community at the first vote. > > The third option is to let us Userreps pick someone we know and that > has shown interest in our project. And plainly spoken, this is the > option I favor the most, as does the rest of Userreps and Userrel. > Here is why: > > 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. > > Since the whole project was started there has only been one user, who > also ran for Userreps btw, that followed our moves very closely. He > is in our channel (#gentoo-userreps) almost all the time, he takes > part in all our and userrel meetings, he is well known and respected > in the devs community, he made lots of useful suggestion and took the > time to write various concepts for his ideas, all of us Userreps value > him and his opinion quite high and we get along with him very well. > > After the 11th seat got vacant, there wasn't really any discussion > about it since it was obvious that we all wanted to have > [url=http://forums.gentoo.org/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=105924]djay[/url] > > (aka djay-il [irc] aka Alex Bogak [rl]) as our new team member. Most > of the devs believed that he was a Userrep anyways because he showed > up at all the meetings and actively took part in all the discussions. > :lol: And Userrel also seems to strongly agree with this idea. > > So I am here to ask your support to make djay our 11th member on the > next Userreps/Userrel meeting this Saturday. He knows his way around > and we know him quite well and he would fit just perfect in our team. > If you want us to move on, to do the things we were voted for as fast > as possible, please show us your support by dropping a few lines. If > you think that this is not ok, please drop us a few lines to explain > why.
An idea "out of the box" style: Why not take that guy djay because he already acts like a part of the project anyway, the second from the previous voting because it's fast and logical, and a third one from a new voting because it would be fair? This way everyone would be happy. ;-) Yep, why restrict the project to only 11 members? -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
