[Standards] Re: Council (and what it does, and what it should do)

On 6/3/24 3:02 AM, Goffi wrote:

All feedback from experienced community members is valuable, and I see no reason why council feedback should matter more.

This is a very important point. Council members are not special people with special insight - they are simply community members who are temporarily serving in a role that is necessary within our standards process. When I was elected to the IESG, I wrote [1] the following quote on my whiteboard: "Power tends to corrupt." --Lord Acton Peter [1] https://stpeter.im/journal/1399.html