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060709 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten? wrote: |
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> On Sunday 09 July 2006 01:10, Duncan wrote: |
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>> An interesting observation was that of all the FLOSS projects, |
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>> perhaps only Debian had successfully crossed the line |
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>> from "medium" to "large". |
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> but they have maintainers that often does not know what their work is |
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> and screw things up very bad: unstable and experimental they call them. |
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It's a badly neglected aspect of business studies |
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that there is an optimal size for any organisation, some bigger than others. |
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In the area of public transport, our own local TTC performs well |
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only because it has a tradition of very good management & democratic control. |
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One reason so much of the British railway system was closed 1955-70 |
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was that the unified nationalised (1948) organisation BR was too big |
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for its management to keep up with, so they dumped all the local bits. |
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There have been any number of corporate mergers which went too far. |
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This is an underlying principle of human behaviour which Gentoo should accept |
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& never measure success by how big it's getting. Also it sb very careful |
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how it integrates new devs: mentoring is much more important than tests. |
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Another basic human need is to take breaks. Some recent sudden departures |
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might have been avoided, if devs took regular vacations as an accepted norm. |
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The average age for Gentoo devs seems to be about 25 , |
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which means there's lots of energy, but a bit too little experience. |
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As someone who's been around longer than that (smile), |
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I haven't seen anything seriously wrong with the way Gentoo does things. |
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Open debate, democratic votes & some basic tolerance solve most problems |
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& the occasional guy who doesn't fit in can be bidden a friendly goodbye. |
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