> > When a NM joins i doubt he realises the self-destructive "mindshare" > > battle that goes on within debian. > > If the mindshare is really self-desctructive, why does Debian still > exist? Or when will Debian have itself finally destructed? well, I think self-destructive is abusive, I'd use the word : ineffciency. > That's the wrong way of doing so. You're trying to tell people what > they have to do. That won't work in this area. You may want to offer > your help and provide helpful input instead. well, here, my _very_ short experience tells me that a lot of DDs don't like to be told what they could/should/may do by some strangers, or wors, non-DD-strangers ... whereas they obviously make some things wrong. I repeat in a shorter way what I told in a too long mail before, there should be a way to gather some groups having some knowledge and decision power on some subjects, and those groups should have some "leader" that is the man that make the final choice. It has not to be very strict, but I guess in the X-Strike force for example, there is the people that make final choices, and the ones that follows. for the apache guys too, and so on. Because perfect democracy is not efficient, somewhere a group need to have a leader -- not necessarily the same for a long time but still a leader. IMHO the inefficiency in debian comes from the fact that there is few 'rulers' (except the DPL, ftpmaster, and such quite respected people). after that, everyone has the same weight (that's not horrible) and pretend to exercise it in every decision (and that is bad). I've the impress everybody wants to know and to rule and to give his opinion on everything, everywhere, and it leads to flamewar (that's inevitable with so many people without anybody to enliven discussions. IMHO good democracy is not to give the same role to everybody, it leads to fight, it's to give everyone the ability and the right to have access at the same roles, if they want to and are able to take them on, and if others want to see them at those places. -- Pierre Habouzit http://www.madism.org/ -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- gpg : 1024D/A1EE761C 6045 409E 5CB5 2CEA 3E70 F17E C41E 995C C98C 90BE spam: mad.junk@madism.org
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