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On Thursday, January 5, 2017 9:09:43 PM EST M. J. Everitt wrote: |
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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. |
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Where are you getting that from? I have gone back to Daniel and seen how the |
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council came about and other things. How everyone views the council and |
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foundation is COMPLETELY wrong. |
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I have done extensive research. Gentoo is so far from what things were |
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intended to be. I was trying to correct some when I was a trustee. |
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Unfortunately I gave into a silent minority who most of which have moved on. |
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Yet the issues remain, problems they prevented solutions from addressing still |
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remain. |
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> 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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I would suggest you go back and look at how the council came to be. I made a |
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post public some time ago that showed exactly what things were supposed to be |
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from Daniel. But once he turned things over, it was lead by consensus and |
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everyone has their own vision of the foundation and council. |
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Yet most seem to dismiss that of the founder of Gentoo. You need to revisit |
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the ideas from the person who started and founded Gentoo. The person who |
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created the foundation, and allowed the council to replace their position. |
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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. |
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It had leadership, the community drove it away, favoring some experiment in |
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organizational structure. Unlike any other FOSS project or entity in the |
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world. Despite the fact that it does not work. People keep speaking like |
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Gentoo structure is that by design and it is not. Gentoo structure is one of |
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evolution as a result of consensus decision making. |
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> 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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I believe that was how things were lead when Daniel Robbins was Chief |
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Architect. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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