Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (67 mails)

[Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 11:19:55PM +0200, Christian Boltz wrote:
> Public votes have the advantage that you know who you need to call 
> names, but they also have the disadvantage that everybody will call a 
> specific board member names in case of problematic decisions...
>
> I'm not sure what is better here. (In other words: I prefer public votes 
> unless I'm elected as a board member ;-))
>
> Opinions?
> BTW: How do the boards of other open source projects handle this?

If you need to do a significant amount of your decisions in such a project
based on voting instead of getting consensus without voting then your project
is practically dead anyway.  Thus I don't understand why this is such an
issue.

Robert

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Robert Schiele
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