On 14:07 Sat 29 Jan , Fabian Groffen wrote: > Since QA is getting lots of powers these days, I strongly object to > this, see also my comment on becoming a QA member. I suggest the > following: > > The QA lead is yearly elected by the whole dev-community (active > developers), same procedure as being used for a council voting. The > nomination is also done by developers, but they can only chose from > the current QA-members.
I already think there's too much time wasted on bureaucratic stuff that distracts us from actually getting work done. We're here to create an awesome source-based distribution, not pretend we're United Nations and the U.S. government all rolled into one. =) In my opinion, reaching the minimum number of elections that allows Gentoo to remain functional should be the goal. There's nothing wrong with concentrating power in a smaller number of people using a meritocratic process -- OSS communities seem to operate much better as a meritocracy than a democracy, as that provides an incentive to actually get stuff done instead of talk about the best process for it all day. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.com
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