Hi,
The word "council" may just be bad choice here as people obviously fear the goal is to establish power to a few. This is to the same degree about power as having forum mods, bug wranglers, wiki admins, master key holders and devops is about having power: Not at all.
Agreed. If the term for the council was changed to "working groups" would that be better?
I agree iterating over sponsorship and co-maintaining will certainly improve some of this. But I can as well imagine some "sub-duties" could help to address the other problems. For time being I don't have a strong opinion or idea how that exactly could look like but i can ensure it shall indeed not be about power in any way described in this thread.
Agreed. I personally don't want to add more power to certain users over others, and I think that's what the general consensus is leaning towards... -Santiago.