Re: Democracy: No silver bullet

Lance Albertson wrote:
> 
> I thought of that while I was walking to a meeting..heh Basically,
> Appoint two people to co-lead, or appoint one Lead and one Vice Lead.
> That way there's some kind of accountability on the bare minimum level
> and good coverage (hopefully).
> 

I was also thinking about turning the Council into a Leaders Group ,
or probably to create a new Core Team.

Difference being that they would be empowered to take decisions; mainly 
technical ones.

I already can hear some of you worried with questions like "You mean, to 
have people with no clue of $<add-you-favorite-team-here> to take 
decisions about $<add-you-favorite-subject-here>?".

Well, first at all, we need to understand and moreover, accept something.

If we want to bring real and important changes to the way Gentoo works, 
we will also need to assume 'real' and important risks.

I think that we all pretty much know this, but we are scared of facing 
this reality and therefore we have incurred to just get a more passive 
body and 'try' to assume we have already addressed the issue with the 
Council (nothing against you guys, it is just that the body isn't 
designed for this).

So, now straight to the point, we could elect a Core Team , including 
people from each team. And those will be the responsible to take Gentoo 
into new 'realms' , with its 'risks' included. I am also scared about 
this model .. it might not work , it actually might create the next 
armageddon for many. But what if it does? , it might help solving this 
stagnation state Gentoo is facing right now, and bring more new ideas 
into play. i would give it a chance because my friend, it is the only 
way to solve the issue.

I personally see the Council as a very passive democratic body, which 
might be good at times; but not always. It is not definitely good for 
taking new changes and innovations into our community.

Something like that anecdote of a tribe invading an island.. after they 
landed on it, the captain ordered to burn all of the ships.. his 
soldiers asked him why? .. he said there was only two ways of ending the 
battle ... death .. or conquering the island.

This .. or let's keep running away forever.

My two Bs. cents.


PS: This was just a general idea. If you are interested about it, let's 
discuss its implementations details in a constructive way instead of 
flames about its already possible details.

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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux


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