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On 08/05/2011 11:49 AM, Fabian Groffen wrote: |
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> On 05-08-2011 11:33:52 +0100, Markos Chandras wrote: |
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>>> A smaller committee for a chief technical officer fits better |
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>>> into a normal corporate structure. A smaller council could form |
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>>> special interest groups to address individual problems so nothing |
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>>> would be lost from the reduced numbers. |
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>> FWIW, I support Donnie's idea. I would like to see a smaller and |
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>> more flexible Council which could assign tasks to interested |
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>> parties. Right now, it takes 3-4 months (that is 3-4 meetings) for |
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>> a Council to decide things and make substantial progress where |
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>> other distributions are moving faster by having a single developer |
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>> or a small group leading the project. In my point of view, we need |
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>> to consider a fundamental change to our organizational structure. |
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>> Roy's ideas are very interesting, however we need to decide on an |
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>> abstract design before we dig into the details. |
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> You really don't think the effectiveness of Council meetings should |
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> be improved, instead of just reducing the number of members and |
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> responsibilties, such that just one person is responsible for a |
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> decision? |
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This is possible up to a point. But having 7 people around makes it hard |
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to maintain an effectiveness/short meeting ratio. In this case, things |
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have to be discussed (and possibly decided) in advanced. |
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> I am against the idea of having single people being able to easily |
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> make (possibly totally unfunded) decisions that affect Gentoo full |
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> project wide. |
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I wonder why this works so well for other distros. |
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> On the other hand, Council members should discuss much more on |
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> lists, prior to meetings, ultimately resolving/deciding issues |
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> already before any meeting takes place. I see no direct need for |
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> centralised meetings at all to discuss on many topics. Voting could |
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> happen on a ML as good as on IRC. |
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I agree. The discussion should start on the next day of the meeting and |
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not one week before the next one. |
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Regards, |
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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 |
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