On 14:07 Sat 29 Jan     , Fabian Groffen wrote:
> Since QA is getting lots of powers these days, I strongly object to 
> this, see also my comment on becoming a QA member.  I suggest the 
> following:
> 
> The QA lead is yearly elected by the whole dev-community (active 
> developers), same procedure as being used for a council voting.  The 
> nomination is also done by developers, but they can only chose from 
> the current QA-members.

I already think there's too much time wasted on bureaucratic stuff that 
distracts us from actually getting work done. We're here to create an 
awesome source-based distribution, not pretend we're United Nations and 
the U.S. government all rolled into one. =)

In my opinion, reaching the minimum number of elections that allows 
Gentoo to remain functional should be the goal. There's nothing wrong 
with concentrating power in a smaller number of people using a 
meritocratic process -- OSS communities seem to operate much better as a 
meritocracy than a democracy, as that provides an incentive to actually 
get stuff done instead of talk about the best process for it all day.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com