On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Noel J. Bergman <n...@devtech.com> wrote: >> The premise of this discussion is that running Apache projects are >> *permitted* to engage in real-time communications, so long as they >> take due care to avoid community problems of exclusion and closed >> decision making. > > Did you see Greg's e-mail?
Noel, I very possibly lost one or more messages in the torrent. I seem to have missed that one. Apologies, benson. > > "Just bring a summary of discussion points back to the list, along with any > recommendations. The list can then sort through it and make decisions." > > Decisions are not made except on the mailing lists. If it starts to seem > that people are being excluded from being an effective part of a decision > process, curtail or modify the back-channel communications. > >> We all want strong communities that are inclusive and open. We all recognize >> that real-time communications pose risks to that. > > +1 > > FWIW, ApacheDS and Geronimo had (possibly still have) *very* active IRC > channels (logged) where people talked in real-time, just as they might at a > Hack-a-Thon. > > --- Noel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org