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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:18:13
Message-Id: 4E3BED69.6060003@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years by Rich Freeman
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4 On 08/05/2011 01:35 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
5 > On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
6 > wrote:
7 >>> I am against the idea of having single people being able to
8 >>> easily make (possibly totally unfunded) decisions that affect
9 >>> Gentoo full project wide.
10 >>>
11 >> I wonder why this works so well for other distros.
12 >
13 > I'm not aware of any large community-based distros that work this
14 > way.
15
16 Really? Lets see
17
18 Debian: http://www.debian.org/devel/leader
19 ArchLinux: http://www.archlinux.org/news/arch-leadership/ ( Had and
20 still has a leader afaik )
21
22 Even though these projects have a single leader, they seem to have a
23 clear technical direction and they are doing pretty well in development
24 overall. Better than we do at the moment.
25
26 I am still not convinced that a committee of 7 people is flexible enough
27 to push radical changes. Maybe they are but they need to spend enough
28 time talking about things before meetings. Does everyone has the time to
29 spend so many hours on mailing lists? See how many discussions end up to
30 /dev/null or just forgotten after a while.
31
32 How much Gentoo differs from 2007? Ignore the load of EAPIs ( which I
33 object to the frequency we release them ). Do you still think that the
34 old style management (that is the one that was formed when Robbins left,
35 and it is pretty much the same until then) is efficient enough nowadays?
36
37 - --
38 Regards,
39 Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
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