Hi Ian,
Thanks for your feedback.
On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 10:24 +0100, Ian Lynch wrote:
> One of the reasons I am a lot less active in the OpenOffice.org
> community than I was in the past is simply that the whole thing lacks
> any real democratic organisation. The person with the most power in
> the community is not elected and the normal company rules for such a
> situation don't apply.
I share your concern that the electorate that represents the community
is apparently appointed by a single person, no matter how excellent and
up-standing they are. Some membership committee backed by a metric of
course can be suitably diverse that hopefully it's more representative.
> So to me, there is not much point in fiddling around with the balance
> of code contributors vs project leads when the fundamental power lies
> with neither group and is unelected.
Luckily code contribution is a far harder metric, that is not so
susceptible to personal taste [ except in code of course ]. Wrt. the
point of fiddling - we can but try to improve things incrementally:
amusingly, ultimately the council has no power anyway, Sun owns and
controls almost everything here.
Thanks,
Michael.
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