I'm trying really really really hard not to reply to this but I can't.
Fr�d�ric Glorieux wrote:
For computing, you are really incredible guys, but for politics, I'm sorry to say that but you are "reinventing the wheel". Rules are not "bureaucratic" but the only way to have a stable democracy, which is the less unefficient governement (for long periods).
first: we are not doing politics, not establishing a government, nor we believe in democratic development metodologies.
second: I've been around open source long enough to know that rules are necessary, *BUT* I've also seeing people that love rules more than the reason why they exist. Rules are not made to create cages, but guidelines. Our philosophy follows the Postel principle for internet architectural design: "be strict in what you send, be flexible in what you receive".
third: if there is one thing that the ASF never did was to "reinvent the wheel" in the labor collaboration and management space. Several business schools of the major universities of the world are studying how we managed to achive what we achieved. Some of them believe this is some of the most innovative critique of existing labor cooperation since Marx.
forth: some of us spend a great amount of their life trying to come up with strategies that avoid the use of those rules, and understand how complex groups form and dissolve, how innovation happens and how community fractures can be avoided. When shit works well, like this project, it's easy to think it 'just happened' and much harder to see all the social work that made it possible, including allowing informal votes to happen and keeping rules to a bare minimum.
Now, go back and re-read my comments under this light.
-- Stefano.
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