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On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 3:15 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> 1. Technical lead -- a person with exceptional technical talents that |
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> would build the vision of Gentoo from technical perspective, i.e. make |
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> a distribution that people would love using. Initially, this role could |
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> be taken by the QA lead. |
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> 2. Social lead -- a person with exceptional social skills that would |
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> build the vision of Gentoo from community perspective, i.e. make |
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> a distribution that people would love contributing to. Initially, this |
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> role would taken by the ComRel lead. |
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> 3. Organization lead -- a person with (exceptional) business skills that |
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> would take care of all the financial and organizational aspects of |
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> Gentoo, i.e. make a distribution that sustains. Initially, this role |
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> would be taken by the Foundation president. |
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A few thoughts: |
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1. There may be some legal challenges with the Foundation around |
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this, but I don't want to elaborate on this. Many are obvious. |
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2. If the goal is to ultimately elect these, I would just have the |
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election vs having them initially be some particular lead. However, I |
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think what you say is still useful in terms of thinking of the sort of |
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role. The problem is none of these leads are popularly elected today |
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and were never intended to unilaterally run the org, so an initial |
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election probably makes sense. |
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3. Do all decisions require a majority of the 3, or will these |
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individuals have their own scope? Will a new technical GLEP just be |
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approved by the "tech lead" or all three? Could the two non-tech |
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leads override the tech lead on a tech decision? Obviously the goal |
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is collaboration but presumably you want this to solve situations |
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where collaboration already fails. I won't go on forever but I could |
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see challenges either way. |
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4. How does accountability work? Are we going to get volunteers who |
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are going to be competent and accept singular accountability without |
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compensation? We struggle to fill Trustee slots and their |
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responsibilities are somewhat nebulous/dilute. Will somebody |
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competent want to be singularly responsible for all fiscal problems |
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without compensation? Don't get me wrong - singular accountability |
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works well in practice but usually these roles are well-compensated. |
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I could see this being a bigger problem with the org lead role. |
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5. I could see a lot of bleed-over. If you want to stack the |
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leadership with pro/anti-emacs members, why would you limit that to |
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only the technical role? Obviously I'm more concerned with more |
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timely issues but we all know of a bunch of hot-button topics where |
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top-down control can be used to push an agenda. So you could end up |
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with an org lead who cares little about the financials simply because |
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they have the right position on the hot topic of the day. Today these |
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jobs are more delegated so that the elected board can represent the |
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community but delegate the actual work to people who are more focused |
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on the actual work. Sure, you could blame the voters for this sort of |
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problem, but we already know how people tend to vote so we're not |
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entirely blame-free if we set it up this way... |
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Not really meant to suggest that this doesn't have merit, because I |
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think it does have a lot of merit. This is more food for thought... |
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Rich |