Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Possible proposal: the current council meeting rules be updated with > one of the following two clauses: > >>Each person at a council meeting may represent only one voting role. > > Or: > >>A proxy must not be an existing council member, and any single person >>may not be a proxy for more than one person at any given meeting.
I'm in favor of the latter, especially due to the following advantages : > * It would allow voters to see how people are likely to behave if they > are voted in in future elections. (Assumption: many people who are > appointed as proxies will stand in future elections.) > > * It will lead to increased discussion, which in turn means the council > is more likely to notice any problems with items on the agenda. About the disadvantage, the "missing two consecutive meetings" rule for the slacker points still protects a council member from accidental last-minute no-proxy failure. And for the meeting itself, the difference between "missing" and "proxied by an already-present council member" is not really significant. > On the same subject, I'd also like to see the "meeting participants" > table updated to explicitly list proxies, for example in the form > "jaervosz (for koon)". Sure, would help toward the advantage #1. Would also help identifying council members that have a tendancy to miss meetings, to make better choices in future elections. -- Thierry Carrez (Koon) Recently-proxied council member -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
