Re: [forum] Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development (EgbertEich)

[Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovi@XFree86.Org>]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003, Paul de Vrieze wrote:

> On Saturday 22 March 2003 23:13, Mark Vojkovich wrote:
> >    One of the problems with voting that is too open is that this
> > becomes a popularity contest.  I believe that most of the community
> > doesn't have the knowledge necessary to pick the leadership that
> > is best for the project - they merely know who they LIKE, and they
> > haven't had enough experience to know who they can actually TRUST.
> > Also, they're not the people who have to work under this management.
> > It's people like myself who have to work under this management.
> >
> 
> I consider the only viable opensource voting system to be voting by feet. When 
> developers don't like the leadership they can activate it and go either 
> somewhere else or start a fork. If enough people agree, the fork will become 
> bigger than the original project, or the project will bleed to dead. I 
> consider this a very efficient voting mechanism that stems directly from 
> market economies.
> 

   Or both projects bleed to death, which I think is a very real
possibility given the circumstances of the current schism.  


			Mark.