On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 12:50 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > A mission statement only goes so far. The underlying leadership has to > make sure that statement is upheld and kept alive. Too many folks have a > mission statement, but no one ever remembers what it is or abides by it. I guess there isn't one driving force behind Gentoo - we have many differing opinions on things like QA, handling of bugs, ...
It's just that usually Gentoo gets the least in your way when you're trying to do something :-) > I guess I'm almost hinting at that Gentoo needs a single entity that's > sole purpose is to drive/research the direction and goals for Gentoo. There was this Robbins guy ... remember him? ;-) > It'd be almost ceo-like, but the council is still top dawg. Right now, I > view our group as a bunch of chiefs with no real single leader saying > "lets strive to do this". The main problem is, too many people fear > about such a person could turn into a dictator, so I'm not sure if this > could ever happen. I wonder if any single person would be accepted? After all there is noone capable of forcing anyone to do anything as far as I can tell - worst case you fork Gentoo (again) and don't resolve the issues. > This person would be in constant contact of all the > groups and try to muck together what everyone is doing. They could > suggest things to help minimize user impact, maybe try to join two > projects if they are both working on a similar goal, thus minimizing the > workload. Stuff like that essentially. Communication ... should happen anyway, but it seems to get more and more difficult. Another layer of bureaucracy won't help that ... > We need a good visionary. If such > a position were created, I also think that person's sole focus should be > that focus within Gentoo. (i.e. they aren't a major contributor for a > subproject in Gentoo). This position would take too much time for them > to keep those other duties. ... and you'd burn out a capable person within half a year I think > Dunno, maybe I'm the loner here thinking this... Maybe a bit idealistic, but I mostly agree :-) Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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