On Friday 13 July 2007 05:08, Robert Schiele wrote:
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.
Yes, I don't expect that the board will take many decisions. The dynamics of
an open source project don't need that. It's certainly better for example to
take decisions by consensus or by letting those decide who do the actual
work. Robert is completely right. If board decisions shouldn't be an issue
otherwise we have much bigger problems.
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Cornelius Schumacher