Hi, On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:07 PM, <josef.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn >> <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote: >>> On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: >> >>>> There certainly is governance now, it's just informal. It's a >>>> combination of how the design discussions are carried out, how pull >>>> requests occur, and who has commit rights. >>> >>> +1 >>> >>> If non-contributing users came along on the Cython list demanding that >>> we set up a system to select non-developers along on a board that would >>> have discussions in order to veto pull requests, I don't know whether >>> we'd ignore it or ridicule it or try to show some patience, but we >>> certainly wouldn't take it seriously. >> >> In the spirit (as I read) of Dag's post, maybe we should accept that >> this thread is not going anywhere much, and summarize: >> >> The current situation is the following: >> >> Travis is de-facto BDFL for Numpy >> Disputes get resolved by convening an ad-hoc group of interested and / >> or active developers to resolve or vote, maybe off-list. How this >> happens is for Travis to call. >> >> I think that's reasonable? >> >> As far as I can make out, in favor of the current status quo with no >> significant modification are: >> >> Travis (is that right)? >> Mark >> Peter >> Bryan vdv >> Perry >> Dag >> >> In favor of some sort of formalization of governance to be decided are: >> >> Me >> Ben R (did I get that right?) >> Bruce Southey >> Souheil Inati >> TJ >> Joe H >> >> I am not quite sure which side of that fence are: >> >> Josef > > Actually in the sense of separation of powers, I would vote for Chuck > as president, Travis as prime minister and an independent release > manager as supreme court, and the noisy mailing list community as > parliament.
That sounds dangerously Canadian ... But actually - I was hoping for an answer to whether you felt there was a need for a more formal governance structure, or not. > (I don't see a constitution yet.) My feeling is there is not enough appetite for any change for that to be worth thinking about, but I might be wrong. See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
