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

[Lance Albertson <ramereth@gentoo.org>]

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> I just posted this to my blog [1], but I know you don't all read it so I
> wanted to post it here as well. Do read all the way through. I very
> rarely write anything this long, and when I do, it's something I feel
> very strongly about.

<snip a bunch of good stuff>

> If I could go back in time a couple of years and prevent this democracy
> from ever happening, I would. If I could fix these problems myself, I
> would. But it requires buy-in from the entire Gentoo community if we're
> to do anything about it.

Amen brother.

I mentioned something similar about needing a single voice to help push
development in the right direction back in January. And sadly, I'm
seeing the same responses on your thread as I did on mine back then. Its
just to the point where there is a line dividing many developers on what
they think is the right way to run Gentoo. Looking at the folks we have
now, I seriously doubt we'll be able to fix it. The same problems we've
faced in the last year or so will just get worse, and eventually enough
good developers will leave that critical mass will be in effect.

Maybe its a cultural thing between some of us, or maybe its the
'pre-daniel' versus 'post-daniel' devs. I'm curious the demographics of
our active developers that were on prior to daniel's leaving compared to
those who joined after. To most of the recent active folks, they never
knew what it was like before. Hell, I just got on towards the tail end
of the daniel-era, so I don't have much validity in that realm myself!
But I do remember how it used to be and how well we did things and how
we usually respected each other in some fashion or another.

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. We all hate
forks, none of us have time for forks, but looking at the dividing line,
I don't see how we'll be able to compromise with out adding more
policies and BS.

Anyways, Donnie++

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