From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30680 invoked by uid 1002); 15 Jul 2003 08:31:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 5811 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2003 08:31:24 -0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org From: Martin Gramatke Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 09:01:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20030714214621.33b75fbd.zhen@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Sender: news Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo part II. X-Archives-Salt: b89064cc-46c1-49ca-b4fd-0fa6129e5e0a X-Archives-Hash: 5a41ce964e5eb983baeaf0dcd77fec18 While Gentoo is actually blessed with highly respectable managers, I have absolutely no idea what the future will be if some of them change their life plans, e.g. get headhunted by MS ;-) So I would really appreciate a more democratic structure in Gentoos's management and I think Debian is a nice antetype. Not necessarily the users have to participate in such a voting system and you really don't have to vote about technical issues which should be decided by managers within their area of accountability. But at least the managers should elect their own circle, role by role and temporal limited. Gentoo now has a good base to start such a restructuring. With respect to the notable efforts of individually managers in the past, I fully understand if they want to keep their good influence on Gentoo. But a democratic structure would give me a much better feeling concerning the long term availability and stability of Gentoo. This would wipe off my last doubt if Gentoo is my distribution for at least the next twenty years. I support John's proposal by one hundred percent. mg -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list