New roles in the Ubuntu IRC team

[Chris Oattes]

On Tue, October 25, 2011 15:07, Juha Siltala wrote:
> More to the point, we will not have democracy in Ubuntu, it will not
> work.
>

Apologies for the double post, but I would like to point out that while
IRC may not be a democracy (ops aren't elected by the general IRC
population and decisions to remove/ban users aren't done as the result of
polling a number of ops), the IRCC is elected by members of the community,
and (should be) voting on decisions - it is democratic. (Unless you are
suggesting that the IRCC isn't governing through consensus of its 5
members and decisions are made by a minority of members on the IRCC
without the others being allowed to give input?)

The thing I am questioning is the need for 5 specific people to be on the
council, which clearly isn't enough people to carry out the amount of work
required of them (as evidenced by this thread) and provides the
opportunity for individuals to block the resolution of issues (see my last
email). I am essentially advocating enlarging the membership of the IRCC
to the whole of the IRC team, reducing potential blockages to progress.

Chris (Seeker`)