OSS Projects and Leadership
Yesterday, I started to follow what’s happening on #gentoo-dev related to Daniel’s blog posts and I’ve found something interesting. Despite what’s discussed on the official channel, people (devs!) tend to bad talking behind each others’ back. You wouldn’t expect this from someone that should be an example for users, being fair, polite and kind. The mentality “democracy = developers power” is just wrong. Democracy is not about that, a democracy needs a leader anyway, otherwise it would turn into something like “anarchy”.
Gentoo developers shouldn’t have that power, they should be just developer in a common sense of the word, what they should do, together with THE COMMUNITY, is electing a leader, a man/woman who draws the path, someone with A VISION in other words. That’s what the Foundation lacks: a long term one.
This is the main reason that leads me thinking about Daniel as the only one able to drive Gentoo back on path. He has a vision, he knows how to be a leader, he’s kind, he listens to users and he deserves it (just, trust me, he does).
So, to me, there are critical, technical, important reasons to have Daniel back on his seat, if not forever at least for the time needed to put Gentoo back on its roots. I’m ready to help, contribute and, why not, merge Entropy. We want the same thing: getting back the “Gentoo Excitement ®”.