Hi, 2009/6/8 Luis Villa <l...@tieguy.org>: > 2009/6/5 Luis Villa <luis.vi...@gmail.com>: >> At any rate, I agree completely that we need some strong leaders to develop >> in GNOME. But the Foundation is not the place for it. I think the right >> question is 'why have leaders not come from other sources? what can the >> Foundation do, if anything, to help other leaders emerge and get the support >> they need to do their work?' I have no easy answers to either of these, >> though. > > Or to put it more bluntly, now that I think of it: why don't we have a > BDFL? Why have we chewed up and spit out all the potential candidates > for the title?
Another important question is: leader of what? BDFL of what? I honestly don't see how only one leader could alone set the direction for desktop, platform, mobile, web, marketing, release management, etc. We're just too big today. I've commented before[1] that we should definitely consider having more clear/official leadership on specific domains of the project. --lucasr [1] http://blogs.gnome.org/lucasr/2008/06/15/notes-on-the-future-of-gnome-problems-and-questions/ _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
