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From: Ryan Phillips <rphillips@g.o>
To: Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:01:05
Message-Id: 20060428185729.GB63263@watcher.kimaker.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union by Alin Nastac
1 Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o> said:
2 > Ryan Phillips wrote:
3 >
4 > >
5 > >The council should not vote on gleps are provide policy. They should
6 > >be there to handle the money and world-wide problems.
7 > >
8 > >The developers should drive innovation; not the council.
9 > >
10 > >As in all democracies things get done slowly. We don't need a
11 > >democracy within Gentoo, just a clear way of creating progress.
12 > >
13 > >
14 > >
15 > Just because we have some elections in our process don't make Gentoo a
16 > democracy.
17 > Since we don't have a leader to make the important decisions, we need
18 > some other form of authority to do the job. A council is the best
19 > solution to the decisional problem.
20 > Obviously it has nothing to do with innovation. As always, this is the
21 > realm of developers.
22 >
23 > In the rest, I basically agree with avenj. No point in repeating what
24 > Jon already said...
25
26 I disagree. The developers should make *all* the decisions.
27
28 Bypass the council. The council should be there only for when we get
29 sued, and manage the money we make.
30
31 Does anyone agree that having a council is too political? I strongly
32 believe it stifles gentoo.
33
34 -Ryan

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union plasmaroo@gentoo.org (Tim Yamin)
Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo: State of the Union Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o>