Let the community vote. Get them onboarded and functioning now. If they don't work out, try another.
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).
I think the voting thing is a terrible idea
Greg KH will probably take over
Perhaps a ranked voting system? Succession methodologies rarely work any better, and lead to all kinds of nepotism.
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
I agree. The democratization is already there, it's called forking.