On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Christian Boltz wrote:
(sorry for my late answer
Heh, I managed to beat that. :-(
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?
I think you'll find the whole range. The FreeBSD core and portmgr teams, for example, have private discussions but minutes that are posted to all FreeBSD committers including the voting behavior of the core and portmgr members. Core is elected every two years. GCC has a steering committee which serves as the primary interface between the FSF (RMS mostly) and the technical GCC leads and operates behind closed doors. Membership is pretty much frozen, but the idea there is to realy have as much as possible in terms of discussions and decisions on the public lists. Cornelius probably is the best person to provide some insights into KDE. Most Open Source or Free Software projects don't have a board, though, it seems the formation of a board is usually a matter of age or size or a combination thereof. Gerald -- Dr. Gerald Pfeifer E gp@novell.com SUSE Linux Products GmbH Director Inbound Product Mgmt T +49(911)74053-0 HRB 16746 (AG Nuremberg) openSUSE/SUSE Linux Enterprise F +49(911)74053-483 GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org