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On 05/01/17 20:58, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> The kind of leadership you're talking about doesn't require winning an |
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> election. Anybody can lead Gentoo in this way. This was largely the |
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> intended role of project leaders back in the day. |
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> The role of the Council is to keep all the disparate little projects |
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> that make up Gentoo working in relative harmony. That way when the |
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> leader of the C++ project wants to make a change that will break all |
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> the Java packages you don't just have the two project leads fighting |
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> WW3. |
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> If somebody has an idea for where they want to take Gentoo I hope |
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> they're not waiting until they win an election to implement it. If |
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> nobody has any such ideas then we wouldn't have anybody to elect into |
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> a Council role even if we thought the Council was the place for such |
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> folks. |
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It is a common gross misconception that it is the role of Council to |
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Lead. It is Not, and probably Never shall be. Council is a body for |
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facilitation only, and to that end, it mostly functions OK. I wondered |
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once whether that should be a Foundation role, but with the ideas |
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regarding reform currently circulating, this might be difficult to realise. |
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It is a completely different question to ask whether Gentoo -has- |
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leadership, -wants- leadership, or indeed -needs- leadership. Now, this |
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doesn't need to go so far as to say "we're going to do This or That" or |
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"we're NOT going to do This or That" but more that .. "we aim for this" |
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and "our key objectives are these" and for that we probably want to |
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appoint a new body to oversee, if that is something that either the |
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developers or community-at-large desire. |
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