On Tuesday 22 January 2008 08:22:23 pm Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
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Nobody, it shouldnt be the most democratic system where everybody has equal rights. It should be a meritocracy, and in a meritocracy you dont need to vote
I agree with your analysis and I really cannot imagine any other way to govern the community that will possible work.
You may not be able to imagine, or you may not want to. First detailed information on meritocracy: http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+meritocracy Is in those definitions something that tells, there is no voting? Definitions of meritocracy seems to tell the same as definition of democracy, where democracy has additional requirement of formal voting as method of selection among skilled, lesser skilled and 'skilled', while meritocracy does not mention exact method. That means for meritocracy, any, including dirty methods are among possibilities, which made call for meritocracy with explicit exclusion of voting suspicious to me. How to choose one candidate among few with similar merit? How to exclude those that doesn't meet the merit? Who is making decision? In corporations it is one that is hiring or making decision about promotions and demotions according to by him perceived appropriate position. This leads often to games that should twist that perception, and as result it seems that meritocracy is not what is applicable for corporations, but it is, completely end entirely, guys that have better understanding of criteria that lead to promotion get one. If someone can explain why this is not meritocracy, using above definitions. Who can claim so much intellectual superiority that voting is not needed, as result is known ahead? Those that have it usually want it confirmed by formal voting, just to see how many of followers agree with them, and vice versa, those that have no merit want to avoid formal voting as it can discard their self proclaimed suitability. It seems that voting or trust rating is needed in openSUSE community to establish or clarify merits among those that are not clearly in advantage, like Pascal, with his own openSUSE repositories, and few others, that work hard and efficient on openSUSE popularity investing time, money and intellect, in community. Novell employees with special status within grounder and main sponsor Novell are not in cometition anyway. BTW, I'm tired of this and will spend no more time replying. -- Regards, Rajko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org