From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GGFmA-0004i0-Ot for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:01:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7OE0SX0019306; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:00:28 GMT Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7ODuVhM030569 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 13:56:31 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.139] (helo=anti-virus01-10) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GGFh9-0006It-Dm for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:56:31 +0100 Received: from [82.41.57.20] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GGFh8-0003lJ-Rt for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:56:30 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:56:28 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Democracy: No silver bullet Message-ID: <20060824145628.5bad7e89@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <44EDACD8.6060900@gentoo.org> References: <44ECF00D.7050107@gentoo.org> <44EDACD8.6060900@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.4.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4bf31d90-e3a1-4128-b437-ba2fb30a710c X-Archives-Hash: c557a181c6e3fa191aa8e6310fc01442 On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:42:48 -0500 Lance Albertson 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list