New roles in the Ubuntu IRC team

[Juha Siltala]

On Oct 25, 2011 6:53 PM, "Chris Oattes" <mailinglist at cjo20.net> wrote:
>
> 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.

The IRCC is appointed by the CC. The vote serves as advice they consult at
their own discretion. They appoint who they see fit and are not bound by the
result of the vote.

Juha
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