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On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 12:50 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> A mission statement only goes so far. The underlying leadership has to |
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> make sure that statement is upheld and kept alive. Too many folks have a |
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> mission statement, but no one ever remembers what it is or abides by it. |
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I guess there isn't one driving force behind Gentoo - we have many |
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differing opinions on things like QA, handling of bugs, ... |
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It's just that usually Gentoo gets the least in your way when you're |
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trying |
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to do something :-) |
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> I guess I'm almost hinting at that Gentoo needs a single entity that's |
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> sole purpose is to drive/research the direction and goals for Gentoo. |
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There was this Robbins guy ... remember him? ;-) |
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> It'd be almost ceo-like, but the council is still top dawg. Right now, I |
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> view our group as a bunch of chiefs with no real single leader saying |
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> "lets strive to do this". The main problem is, too many people fear |
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> about such a person could turn into a dictator, so I'm not sure if this |
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> could ever happen. |
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I wonder if any single person would be accepted? |
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After all there is noone capable of forcing anyone to do anything as far |
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as I can tell - worst case you fork Gentoo (again) and don't resolve |
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the issues. |
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> This person would be in constant contact of all the |
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> groups and try to muck together what everyone is doing. They could |
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> suggest things to help minimize user impact, maybe try to join two |
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> projects if they are both working on a similar goal, thus minimizing the |
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> workload. Stuff like that essentially. |
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Communication ... should happen anyway, but it seems to get more and |
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more |
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difficult. Another layer of bureaucracy won't help that ... |
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> We need a good visionary. If such |
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> a position were created, I also think that person's sole focus should be |
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> that focus within Gentoo. (i.e. they aren't a major contributor for a |
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> subproject in Gentoo). This position would take too much time for them |
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> to keep those other duties. |
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... and you'd burn out a capable person within half a year I think |
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> Dunno, maybe I'm the loner here thinking this... |
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Maybe a bit idealistic, but I mostly agree :-) |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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