Hi, 2007/11/23, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le vendredi 23 novembre 2007, à 14:42 +0100, Murray Cumming a écrit : > > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 01:18 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote: > > [snip] > > > Taking too much time to decide: it sometimes happen that we wait for a > > > meeting or for another event to take a decision, while the decision is > > > pretty trivial. It might be related to my first item, since pinging > > > people so they say +1/-1 could be enough. > > [snip] > > > > This is generally caused by the habit of only making decisions in > > meetings, instead of making decisions on the mailing list. And a > > tendency to think that all decisions must be unanimous. > > > > It works like this. Something is discussed. It becomes an unstructured > > debate and the meeting runs out of time. Someone says "Well, let's make > > a decision at the next meeting". But everyone knows that nothing will be > > done in the meantime to make that more likely, and half the meetings are > > postponed (or don't have the relevant people attending). > > As Jeff mentioned, this year, we had quite a lot of decisions on the > mailing list. But while it could have been done in 1-2 days, it > sometimes take one week. This is what we can improve.
Thanks Vincent and Jeff for clarifying this (saved me the time to write an explanation). That's exactly what I meant. :-) --lucasr _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
