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 1GGGIX-0007VP-2u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:35:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7OEYHDh012026; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:34:17 GMT Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7OEWO0P021518 for ; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 14:32:24 GMT Received: from [172.23.170.147] (helo=anti-virus03-10) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GGGFs-0008Jy-Ee for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:32:24 +0100 Received: from [82.41.57.20] (helo=snowdrop.home) by asmtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52) id 1GGGFr-0007JZ-VX for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:32:24 +0100 Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:32:21 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Democracy: No silver bullet Message-ID: <20060824153221.549704c8@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <44EDB3A8.5000305@gentoo.org> References: <44ECF00D.7050107@gentoo.org> <44EDACD8.6060900@gentoo.org> <20060824145628.5bad7e89@snowdrop.home> <44EDB3A8.5000305@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: cf0569db-a1bf-468c-a1b5-7903a28a4bd9 X-Archives-Hash: a8b5347675f269ddfef9a69c11fb38b2 On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:11:52 -0500 Lance Albertson wrote: | I partially agree that a strong council will help the situation, but | the problem with any leadership-by-committee model is the lack of | quick decisions. Many times things come up that need a quick | resolution (when I say quick, I mean within a few days). And if you | have a committee of 7 or so people that live in several different | timezones, its extremely hard to get them together to discuss it all. Mmm, afaics there's nothing preventing the council from having quick, 'as needed' informal interim meetings with whoever happens to be around. If a few people aren't there, it's not as big a deal as if people don't show up to the monthly meetings. Heck, the monthly meetings could be considered a minimum... | The council has its merits, but it also has its weaknesses, this one | being one of them. I think I mentioned 6mo ago that we could keep the | council, but select one person to sort of be the "operational lead" | to make quick decisions so that development moves on. What happens if he or she (ok, he) isn't around? Is the flexibility of having a single "on the spot decision" leader enough to outweigh the disadvantages over allowing mini meetings? -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail : ciaran dot mccreesh at blueyonder.co.uk -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list