Re: [gentoo-dev] Democracy: No silver bullet

[Daniel Ostrow <dostrow@gentoo.org>]

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On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 17:26 -0400, Michael Cummings wrote:
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> Stuart Herbert wrote:
>  > We've had a global vision for where Gentoo is going from before I
> > joined - Gentoo is here to create a source-based distribution where
> > each package is as close to what $UPSTREAM intended it to be as
> > possible.  We're not trying to take $UPSTREAM packages and innovate
> > with them - we're here to do a first class job of packaging them up.
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> Um, that's a mission statement, not a vision. A vision is a series of
> goals for a project, like "my vision is that we will produce knoppix
> like catalyst+template releases for myth, firewalls-on-a-disk, etc by
> the 2007.0 release."  a mission statement is "we'll make the best from
> source distro ever." i.e, mission statements never change because they
> are just an overarching definition of a project, not the vision or goal
> it might be working towards at the moment.
> 
> somebody shoot me, my job in middle management is finally getting to me.

Exactly...

Above and beyond that is the next step...once you have a vision...ok so
what do we need to do to further the vision, do we need more devs doing
X, do we need hardware Y, do we need an Ice Cream machine...

Leadership is way more then just shouting a vision out to the world and
expecting people to hop to it...its about helping facilitate that
visions completion, keeping yourself involved so those working on it
feel involved themselves...leadership is just as much a community
building exercise as any of the rest of it.

--Dan

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