Re: [gentoo-dev] Democracy: No silver bullet

[Carsten Lohrke]

On Thursday 24 August 2006 09:54, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> The council doesn't actually do anything AFAICT, it just "approves" GLEP
> decisions that have already been made. So in effect we have no leadership.

Well, to quote the council project page:

"The elected Gentoo Council decides on global issues and policies that affect 
multiple projects in Gentoo."

and from GLEP 19

"Global issues will be decided by an elected Gentoo council."

So yes, the council is not elected to rule into decisions of single Gentoo 
project decisions, unless it affects Gentoo globally. What "global issues" 
are can be argued about, though. Personally I see the council as our body to 
make decisions and wouldn't disagree to reword the base on which the council 
acts to give them explicitly the power to decide on whatever they feel they 
have to, if necessary - except being bound to have to be re-elected.


I'm not as long on board as you Donnie, but I don't think you're right with 
your implicit call that we need a benevolant dictator. There's simply no 
evidence, that this model would have done better with Gentoo's growth. I have 
at least one big point I could list, what went wrong, while Daniel Robbins 
was the lead. Ask me privately, if you're interested what I mean. I don't 
want to let others look bad or be the source of flaming.


Carsten