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On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o> wrote: |
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> In short, --Routine_Appointments, ++Monitoring ++AuthortyToAct |
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Not a bad idea. In fact, I'd probably extend this to most areas of |
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Gentoo as well. Some of these threads get a bit Kefka-ish with all |
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the questions raised about whether the Council has the right to do |
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this or that. These kinds of attitudes amount to "if you don't like |
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it, tough - you have no recourse." If Gentoo has a problem we should |
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fix it - not argue over whether anybody is allowed to fix it. |
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I'm not a fan either of the council (or trustees) micro-managing |
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things, or not having the ability to step in when things get out of |
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hand. These are elected bodies, and generally have not shown a |
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tendency to heavy-handedness in any case. |
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Something Donnie campaigned on also rings true to my ears - we don't |
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need long-standing rules to deal with one-time problems. If a team is |
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out of control, the council should simply step in and fix it, and then |
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let it run its course. The council should be viewed as having |
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authority over the entire developer space, but not as something with |
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day-to-day involvement in everything that goes on. |
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Look at how any business runs. When you have a spat with your boss |
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the owner of the company probably doesn't get called in to sort it out |
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- your boss and his boss just deal with it. However, if the owner of |
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the company does happen to walk in and set things straight, you won't |
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find everybody arguing with him about it. We, as the community, are |
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the owners of Gentoo, and we can make of it what we will. However, |
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having a half-dozen elected representatives to deal with serious |
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issues rather than putting everything to referendum just makes sense. |
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That really applies to both the council and the trustees. |
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So, if there is a problem to be fixed, I say go fix it. If there |
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isn't a problem, we don't necessarily need to look to create one... |
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Rich |