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

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:11:52 -0500 Lance Albertson
<ramereth@g.o> wrote:
| I partially agree that a strong council will help the situation, but
| the problem with any leadership-by-committee model is the lack of
| quick decisions. Many times things come up that need a quick
| resolution (when I say quick, I mean within a few days). And if you
| have a committee of 7 or so people that live in several different
| timezones, its extremely hard to get them together to discuss it all.

Mmm, afaics there's nothing preventing the council from having quick,
'as needed' informal interim meetings with whoever happens to be around.
If a few people aren't there, it's not as big a deal as if people don't
show up to the monthly meetings. Heck, the monthly meetings could be
considered a minimum...

| The council has its merits, but it also has its weaknesses, this one
| being one of them. I think I mentioned 6mo ago that we could keep the
| council, but select one person to sort of be the "operational lead"
| to make quick decisions so that development moves on.

What happens if he or she (ok, he) isn't around? Is the flexibility of
having a single "on the spot decision" leader enough to outweigh the
disadvantages over allowing mini meetings?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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