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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Democracy: No silver bullet
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:56:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060824145628.5bad7e89@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EDACD8.6060900@gentoo.org>

On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:42:48 -0500 Lance Albertson
<ramereth@gentoo.org> wrote:
| I'm afraid those days are in the past unless some kind of fork happens
| where the folks who think we need a leader go their way and the folks
| who prefer the leader-by-committee approach go their way.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. A strong council can provide the
equivalent of a single leader without the problems of what to do when
the leader gets sick, and with less chance of a screwup because of
increased discussion.

The problem, of course, is how to get a strong council...

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
Mail            : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 86+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24  0:17 [gentoo-dev] Democracy: No silver bullet Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-24  2:19 ` Daniel Ostrow
2006-08-24  3:56   ` Joshua Jackson
2006-08-24  6:47 ` Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
2006-08-24  7:52   ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-24  8:29     ` Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
2006-08-24 20:28       ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-24  6:50 ` Wernfried Haas
2006-08-24  7:54   ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-24  8:26     ` Wernfried Haas
2006-08-26 20:23       ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-08-24 12:13     ` Carsten Lohrke
2006-08-24 13:35     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-24  8:50 ` Stuart Herbert
2006-08-24 10:39   ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-08-24 15:13   ` Ferris McCormick
2006-08-24 21:00   ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-24 23:28     ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-08-25  5:36       ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-25  7:35         ` Andrew Cowie
2006-08-25 15:45         ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-08-25 15:55           ` Mike Doty
2006-08-25 16:08             ` Luca Barbato
2006-08-25 16:25           ` Wernfried Haas
2006-08-25 16:35             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-25 17:27               ` Wernfried Haas
2006-08-25 18:19                 ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-26  3:53                   ` Wernfried Haas
2006-08-26 13:40                     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-25 18:39                 ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-08-26  2:41           ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-25 21:48         ` Alec Warner
2006-08-26  0:43           ` Alec Warner
2006-08-25 19:41     ` Stuart Herbert
2006-08-25 19:52       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-26 20:55       ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-08-25 19:45     ` Stuart Herbert
2006-08-24 21:26   ` Michael Cummings
2006-08-24 21:37     ` Daniel Ostrow
2006-08-25 15:25       ` Mike Bonar
2006-08-24 13:42 ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-24 13:56   ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2006-08-24 14:11     ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-24 14:32       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-24 14:58         ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-24 16:53           ` Luis Francisco Araujo
2006-08-24 18:01             ` Marius Mauch
2006-08-24 18:15               ` Luis Francisco Araujo
2006-08-24 20:09                 ` Marius Mauch
2006-08-24 20:46                   ` Luis Francisco Araujo
2006-08-24 21:51                     ` Marius Mauch
2006-08-24 22:11                       ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-26 20:59           ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-08-24 15:17         ` Luca Longinotti
2006-08-24 17:13       ` Thierry Carrez
2006-08-24 17:40         ` Mike Doty
2006-08-24 18:03           ` Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen
2006-08-24 18:14             ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-24 18:27               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-24 19:31               ` Homer Parker
2006-08-24 19:53                 ` Lance Albertson
     [not found]               ` <44EDF61C.40303@gentoo.org>
2006-08-24 19:45                 ` Daniel Ostrow
2006-08-24 18:55           ` Alec Warner
2006-08-24 19:55             ` Lance Albertson
2006-08-24 17:42         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-24 13:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-08-24 22:29   ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-08-25  5:38     ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-08-25 17:13     ` Wernfried Haas
2006-08-25 18:35       ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-08-25 19:49         ` Grant Goodyear
2006-08-26 10:17         ` Wernfried Haas
2006-08-26 13:01           ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-08-26 14:06             ` Stephen P. Becker
2006-08-24 14:32 ` [gentoo-dev] " Dominique Michel
2006-08-26 15:09 ` Paul de Vrieze
2006-08-27 11:28 ` Roy Bamford
2006-08-27 21:37   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2006-08-28 10:20     ` Roy Bamford
2006-09-02  7:55 ` Wiktor Wandachowicz
2006-09-03  3:11   ` Richard Fish
2006-09-03  7:15     ` Wiktor Wandachowicz
2006-09-03 19:29       ` Chris Gianelloni
2006-09-04 22:32         ` Richard Fish
2006-09-03 10:25     ` Luis Francisco Araujo
2006-09-04 22:06       ` Richard Fish

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