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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:34:39
Message-Id: 4E3BC710.6090402@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years by Roy Bamford
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4 On 08/04/2011 11:19 PM, Roy Bamford wrote:
5 > On 2011.08.04 21:06, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
6 >> On 21:42 Wed 03 Aug , Roy Bamford wrote:
7 >>> No problem - something as radical as that might have stirred more
8 >>> interest.
9 >>
10 >> And we'd hate to have people actually interested in this. =)
11 >>
12 >> FWIW, I'd like to see us have 3 people at most on the council.
13 >>
14 >> But regardless of how many people there are, I think they should be
15 >> unequal with different areas of responsibility, independent
16 >> decision-making authority, and only one person at the top to revert
17 >> their decisions. I don't really like how all members are
18 >> at-large.
19 >>
20 >> -- Thanks, Donnie
21 >>
22 >> Donnie Berkholz Council Member / Sr. Developer Gentoo Linux Blog:
23 >> http://dberkholz.com
24 >>
25 >
26 > A smaller committee for a chief technical officer fits better into a
27 > normal corporate structure. A smaller council could form special
28 > interest groups to address individual problems so nothing would be
29 > lost from the reduced numbers.
30 >
31 FWIW, I support Donnie's idea. I would like to see a smaller and more
32 flexible Council which could assign tasks to interested parties. Right
33 now, it takes 3-4 months (that is 3-4 meetings) for a Council to decide
34 things and make substantial progress where other distributions are
35 moving faster by having a single developer or a small group leading the
36 project. In my point of view, we need to consider a fundamental change
37 to our organizational structure. Roy's ideas are very interesting,
38 however we need to decide on an abstract design before we dig into the
39 details.
40
41 - --
42 Regards,
43 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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