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On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 3:36 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. |
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<wlt-ml@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I am not saying ideas should never come from developers. More than most the |
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> ideas should be coming from the council, as they are leading Gentoo. The |
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> council should always be receptive to developer input and ideas, but should be |
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> producing at least the same if not more themselves. |
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On this I disagree. |
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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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Rich |
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