This week
=========

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20080508-summary.txt

	What was the council's role in the recent enforced retirement of 3
	developers?
	------------------------------------------------------------------
	The council received numerous complaints, agreed that the devrel
	lead could take action and discussed the problems with her. The 
	council did not "force" her to claim its actions were hers.


I wrote the above statement, so I don't have anything more to add unless 
there's additional questions.


	Why does the council permit such actions in apparent violation of 
	Gentoo's policy of openness?
	-----------------------------------------------------------------
	http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/#doc_chap2 says this:

	"Every aspect of Gentoo is and remains open. Gentoo does not 
	benefit from hiding any of its development processes (whether it 
	is source code or documentation, decisions or discussions, 
	coordination or management)."

	Chris (wolf) noted that it does specifically refer to 
	development process. Devrel's current process document
	<http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/policy.xml> also makes 
	specific note of the lack of transparency, and disciplinary 
	actions have historically been discussed in a closed 
	environment, in part because of the potential harmful effects of 
	the discussions if action is not taken.


It looks like creative license was taken with 
http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/contract.xml to turn it into 
http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/#doc_chap2. The foundation document 
was not written by the council and conflicts with what's written in the 
social contract.

The social contract says: "We will not hide problems ... Exceptions are 
made when we receive security-related or developer relations 
information"


	What is the council's role in an appeal?
	----------------------------------------
	How should we proceed with the current appeals?

	If the council is directly involved in disciplinary action, 
	Ferris requests that we amend GLEP 39 to explain how the council 
	handles appeals and whether the council can take direct 
	disciplinary action.


I'm not sure that doing the appeals during a live meeting is appropriate 
or the best way to go. I think that doing this on the alias or a bug 
will promote ongoing and deeper thought more than trying to do this in a 
time-pressured manner where we'll probably be getting hassled by 
everyone appealing in addition to numerous other "concerned people."

We should ask in advance for an email from the appealer, and then we can 
consider the appeal and release a decision in 1 week.