On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:52:28PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > The reason all of that is a problem is that the power to decide who is and > isn't a member of the project has been centralised with two individuals > (James Troup and Joey Schulze originally, then just James, and now Joerg > Jaspert and James). If people think there's a better way of doing things > than what they're doing, they can't do it themselves, they have to go > through James and Joerg; and if the suggestion that there's a better > way of doing things comes off as criticism, or if it seems too different > and scary, or if they're just too busy or distracted with other things, > you're not going to get anywhere. > > Having the ability to include people in the project in a minor way > be available to all DDs decentralises that -- it still leaves DAM as > the sole decider of who's a DD, but it gives other people a chance to > demonstrate that other approaches to getting people involved can be > effective and worth adopting. > > If n-m were working well, or even I thought it had any hope of working > well, I expect I'd be all for this being unified with n-m -- after all, > that's what I'd thought was happening in '06, and what I was still hoping > would happen until Joerg and James made it pretty clear that they weren't > interested in anything I had to say and would do whatever they could to > stop it.
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