On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:

> Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:
> >
> > And I do think it is; as a PMC of a hundred members will
> > never act quicker or more focused/quick as a group of 5-10
> > people recruited out of those 100 who have a task (say
> > investigate a license issue) and know that there are
> > a 100 people looking at them to get it done.
>
> that is externally-driven activity.  for an internally-driven
> one, the turnaround time may be faster, but i suspect the
> savings will sometimes be eaten up by post-mortem dissection
> and argument involving the outside.

That is an important distinction which I had not thoughd off; perhaps we
need to go as far as to deal with each role separately and with a
different strucutre.

Dw

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