On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:28:10AM +0000, Duncan wrote: > > I think you missed one thing. From the council page: "Only Gentoo > > developers may be nominated" Thus your corner-case of a moderator that > > does nothing else wanting to become a council member is not valid, > > because the moderator is not a developer, if he were, he would be doing > > other things as well. > It's possible I read the conclusions incorrectly, but I thought that > global forum moderators were made full Gentoo staff, and that, save for > the practical distinction of "tree dev" vs. not, the terms "Gentoo dev" > and "Gentoo staff" were interchangeable. That's at least part of what I > referred to with the mention of possible restriction I wasn't aware of, > as I wasn't positive about staff status, but if it's correct, then at > least in theory global mods could indeed run for council. > > If it's not correct, that they are staff and /not/ devs, therefore /not/ > eligible for council, then I've misunderstood. Apologies for the noise. Somebody else more intimately familiar with the meta-structure documents would be better suited to answer this one than me - reading those instead of the council page, I cannot tell one way or another if they are or are not able to run for the council (but it could also be that it's 02h40 and I'm really tired and still stuck on work stuff).
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