On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Wulf C. Krueger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, 08. December 2008 17:37:42 Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> Open and public debate about the right way to do things does take >> longer, and it's something you certainly participate in quite >> frequently so I'm surprised to hear you badmouth it when it comes to >> your own ideas. > > It's not about Ciaran's (or anyone's ideas). We openly and publicly discuss > such things in Exherbo, too. Not endlessly, though, but we get to an actual > decision in a much shorter timeframe. > > Of course, Ciaran plays along the Gentoo way of either discussing things > till a) people are sufficiently annoyed about the length of the thread to > stop reading it at all (the normal procedure), b) the council decides to > postpone the decision to the next meeting during which it gets postponed to > the next meeting (and so on) or c) it's being decided that it's not needed > (only to discover half a year later that an issue has to be worked around > again because the real solution was treated in the way of a) or b)). :-) > > So this is not badmouthing but dealing with the facts of Gentoo.
s/Gentoo/Any 'large' organization with little or no management/ it turns out this is a problem in a number of other organizations; hopefully Gentoo will get better at addressing them. -Alec > > Best regards, Wulf
