council already IS merged into both HiFo and MCeV. For HiFo we even had a referendum adjusting rules between maemo council and HiFo council so that after that (and two councilors stepping down since they were no member of "both councils") the council could legally declare it's ONE council now and obeys both rulesets (which were identical in that moment)... bla... So we now have one council with three "jobs"
Reading that log was like a flashback to being on Council. I remember that any disagreement with Joerg on the other side felt like a smash-head-into-wall session. From what I was around to see, as Council and after, he seems to often get his way through sheer persistence. I don't know his situation now but back then he ... seemingly had the whole day, every day, to spend on Council/infra work, or on swaying the direction of things. The whole point of HiFo having a council in the first place was to replace the original comunity council. Since apparently that wasn't explicitly stated enough for some people (and Joerg was the primary entity I remember arguing against the notion that this alread happened) in the proceedings that created HiFo (particularly the referendum that established initial HiFo bylaws or whatever), we had another referendum to make that happen again/for-realz. But then somehow (and if memory serves Joerg was again the driving force there), that got perverted even before the vote, to mean that we're not abolishing one / fusing them, but that we were merely making their rules identical. The idea became that the next council(s) could then initiate the next referendum to fuse the two... *Sigh* In retrospect it was disgustingly convoluted avoidance (perhaps innocently unintentional, though I'm unsure there) of the original intent.