Quick summary
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This was a special meeting to figure out how to handle the recent 
enforced retirement of 3 developers.


Roll call
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(here, proxy [by whom] or slacker?)

amne        
betelgeuse  
dberkholz   
flameeyes   
lu_zero	    
vapier      
jokey       


Last week
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	Enforced retirement
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	The meeting had already gone 2.5 hours and we were short multiple 
	council members because of the late hour in their timezone, or 
	broken hardware in the case of jokey. Because of the urgency of 
	getting this resolved, we decided it couldn't wait for next month's 
	meeting and scheduled a special session for next week at the same 
	time.

This week
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	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?
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	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.


	Why does the council permit such actions in apparent violation of 
	Gentoo's policy of openness?
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	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.


	What is the council's role in an appeal?
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	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.