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On 1/31/08, William L. Thomson Jr. <wltjr@g.o> wrote: |
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> Daniel, |
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> On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 12:12 -0700, Daniel Robbins wrote: |
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> > What is relevant to post here is that I thank Grant et al for |
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> > clarifying whether I was a valid nominee, and I did seriously consider |
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> > the offer, but ultimately decided that to what I think is necessary |
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> > would require fundamental changes to the way the Gentoo project is |
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> > structured which would have been very disruptive and difficult to make |
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> > even as a trustee, and it's not clear that I would have the ability to |
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> > make these changes as a trustee even if I were elected due to the |
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> > current structure of the project that I would have been required to |
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> > work within. |
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> Is it not worth it to you to try? Worse case you are limited and can't |
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> do what you like. But more than likely it's not all or nothing either |
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> way. |
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> > I also don't really feel comfortable with the concept of developers |
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> > voting to make decisions like this for the project. It doesn't seem to |
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> > yield good results or be a positive use of time, and I don't really |
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> > think the underlying concept is sound. |
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> Not to be argumentative or confrontational. But out of curiosity as I |
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> was not around the. Weren't you a participant in creating the structure |
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> we have now? Creation of the foundation, board of trustees, election |
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> process, etc. |
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One of my co-workers has a saying 'Trying things out is one of the |
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best ways to see if a thing works'. Just because he helped create the |
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structure we have today doesn't mean that structure was success; then |
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or now. Much of this involves experimentation. No one knows the best |
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way to manage a volunteer group of this size and we have to have some |
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sort of organization and we have to be smart enough and wise enough to |
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know when a solution is not working and work to fix it. Whether that |
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means incremental changes or more sweeping changes; I don't think |
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anyone knows ;) |
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-Alec |
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> > So by accepting the nomination |
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> > I would be participating and thus supporting a system that I |
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> > fundamentally don't agree with, and I can't see that as being a good |
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> > thing. At the very least, it doesn't sit well with me. |
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> Usually pretty hard to change anything externally. Usually much easier |
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> to make changes from within. If major, then broken down in to smaller |
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> baby steps. Change usually requires leadership, and if not in a position |
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> to lead. Makes any changes much more difficult to see through. IMHO |
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> -- |
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> William L. Thomson Jr. |
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> Gentoo/amd64/Java |
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