This might be one of the few cases where democracy won't actually work very well. If for no other reason than that I don't think we can actually define the community in any useful way.

Technocracy/meritocracy in this case is better, so long as disaffected groups can fork the kernel rather than be forced to accept what that leadership decides (they can).

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the voting thing is a terrible idea

Greg KH will probably take over

[–] big_dog_lemmy@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps a ranked voting system? Succession methodologies rarely work any better, and lead to all kinds of nepotism.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

We need nepotism in the Kernel, whomever takes over needs to be a long time developer with skills.

Elections are great for steering committees and such it not for a huge highly technical piece of software that powers the world

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I agree. The democratization is already there, it's called forking.