From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QpNhj-0008F4-9S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:56:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D31D421C129; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 16:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2CF21C128 for ; Fri, 5 Aug 2011 16:56:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so2786087wyh.40 for ; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:56:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=H4yPpoUuzqXRLLhvtMdhcnj4YvNZVryrnfE9i7PzR9Q=; b=H1R6KYwxh7LTnqxnaw6W4Z6P3erTPVfdfVkL3KhjFDPU+8oXrB19uKDDsM4fswS1ox 9HnWxnwXoaiGcsseACTG60w7Yd8TXwhzvEOCGa8/5HqwBFwAwgXrdy+vWIzB6rQYEOvd pF1i7BVn2b+8D5HvNnLi0OQkCD3dorNLCVEAI= Received: by 10.227.128.140 with SMTP id k12mr2105446wbs.40.1312563401464; Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [130.88.185.147] (wh147a.halls.manchester.ac.uk [130.88.185.147]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id es3sm1881970wbb.6.2011.08.05.09.56.40 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 05 Aug 2011 09:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4E3C20AF.2010001@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:56:15 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110721 Thunderbird/5.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Council discuss: overlapping council terms of two years References: <1312307887.2901.2@NeddySeagoon> <4E38B4D9.7020603@gentoo.org> <1312404150.2882.2@NeddySeagoon> <20110804200630.GE4840@comet.ucsd.edu> <1312496361.2864.0@NeddySeagoon> <4E3BC710.6090402@gentoo.org> <20110805104952.GK81662@gentoo.org> <4E3BCD6E.8030101@gentoo.org> <4E3BED69.6060003@gentoo.org> <20110805134412.GC17729@gentoo.org> <4E3BF61F.7050300@gentoo.org> <4E3C1B74.1020105@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4E3C1B74.1020105@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.2pre Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f2607a319ccd766ad004abdac6944551 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 08/05/2011 05:33 PM, "Pawe=C5=82 Hajdan, Jr." wrote: > On 8/5/11 6:54 AM, Markos Chandras wrote: >> My point is how fast and how flexible can a committee like this >> decide on global project issues >=20 > It's not only about a decision. Enforcing a decision in an open > source project is not always trivial. What if you make a decision but > don't have manpower to implement it? Or people just don't want to > follow? If you make a decision that is not realistic then you failed as a leader, but you will probably success as a politician. > By the way, a lot of work can be done by projects, and it doesn't > need council (maybe for the final rubber stamp). >=20 Yes of course. But the council is the one which gets to decide for inter-project solutions and other global issues. - --=20 Regards, Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJOPCCvAAoJEPqDWhW0r/LCObAQAKTE+13TIS64tM0H1i9vSB+J 9Nb50X8RmHZj5dfzKqhfaJID1MtVntdE/8yNe7CO1hJil85vRl4DGxAXLfkiJZBY H7RQOSJBF1Gulyl8RHDloycuOVsSERhnduhtluMkzx8J3802TTWZu3h1jS+9NH41 jiTCLMnnpDeWh3lCWAZc8aR8pkMeA+t4iI7vsufbTdCoJHtDcwIxgE5tQDFr/PYJ 4c9uwABj1rcyFdjtPdxBJCLTfrHvxGTLOAS6eFXwfUFq5XM/9aCuewlhi23XXGhD jz98TXLjdMYEd0Vjle3gBbWHOD64tCAOxviBRN5SDmUfLGdUYxmX7CwdXJKAP6U9 y5FdIb9fIIHZdRTxJX48723222nv2FzblTZFGRuncJRlz0ihol78ne2iXkmYtetk d8CbsKp3/mSr5f/vk2akFMtQumg6vliWjN2mRSO6sfuwfGDGO3xMjt4NL5c/A54x KuK29xdbmDFTIwOy8Ru6g5MxEgqeqtBP85vCNboQywWT/uLCri+wFmTr7jjEtn6a LPv+i2DMgpYroC1QhWYgu6ZEHUl+EAph01BhS3ljcJu2LuH1u0ZNABioqc0wVk/5 KdOpDXxInUqG7k/yg7hYvzVg4fK2KDaICfq+SJnJ+apOAm1ABiPxzN9R7bMS5yKc +i3cMowHh/mq6hyqytU6 =3Daj5g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----