Hi, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 16:11 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: >> 2. Board meetings are minuted, and these minutes are published >> regularly. However, the board also increasingly makes decisions on >> board-list with the Apache +1/0/-1 convention. Would you support the >> minuting of these votes, including recording any -1 votes? > > As I mentioned in another email, I get the impression that > most decisions don't even come down to a vote. Board members > seem to just come to an agreement. I don't think there's any > benefit to mandating more process in those cases. > > When things do come to a vote, yes, I believe votes should > be publicly recorded (unless the entire topic has to be kept > secret for some reason). Board members act on behalf of the > foundation membership. Their votes should be representative > of what the foundation wants, so I don't think they have a > right to a secret ballot.
I bring this up, because there have been 1 or 2 things in which I've been involved this last year where I have heard on the grapevine that some board members disagreed. Disagreement in a board is healthy, and I definitely don't want to have an expectation that everyone follows the party line. However, when deciding (for example) whether to vote for someone or not, I think it's important that I know where they stand on the Big Stuff (like budget allocations, hiring decisions, etc). So I think it's important that if something happens by majority decision that those decisions be reported back to the membership. Thanks for your answers Shaun! (and Emily & Lionel). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list