Re: Getting to Topaz (Was Re: getting on a longer release cycled)

[Maxim Udushlivy <maxim udushlivy gmail com>]

Ed Mack wrote:
> > Gnome Sheriff must be elected by some formal procedure (better by 
> > democratic voting). His main responsibility - moderate mailing lists 
> > from bullshit, destroy crazy ideas before they infect people, protect 
> > project ideology, etc.
> >     
>
> A democracy arises because allowing everyone a say in running the
> country is not feasible. We already have structures where everybody can
> voice opinion, and if you think you can do something better you are free
> to patch/fork anyone elses code (as a programming domain example). 
>
>   
There are opinions that those structures do not influence much. I do not 
think I can do better, I just see that Gnome appears to be lost a bit 
and I was trying to suggest a new position that may fix a leadership 
problem, a Gnome Moderator (or Sheriff if you are not against humor). It 
seems to me that Jeff Waugh is doing something similar to moderation - 
then why not to create an official position, give more rights (as well 
as responsibilities) to it and elect a man for a period?

> Lets not limit ourselves to the non-digital world for the sake of an
> organisation diagram.
>
>   
Developers are not digital.