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

[Thierry Carrez <koon@gentoo.org>]

Lance Albertson wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> 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...
> 
> 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.

Rather than complaining on how spineless the last Council and ways of
getting it stronger, it's interesting to look back at one-year-worth of
Council decisions and see where (and by whom) it has been disobeyed.

I for one was quite demotivated to see that the Infra team could
overrule the Council (and did it twice). Fixing this is the first step
in having a strong Council / leader / whatever.

-- 
Koon
Member of the last Council
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