Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:00:56 +0200 > Thierry Carrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Excerpt from the metastructure model, chosen by the majority of devs >> last year (and not my model): >> [...] >> * It may have one or many leads, and the leads are selected by the >> members of the project. This selection must occur at least once every >> 12 months, and may occur at any time. >> [...] > > While we're on the subject of the metastructure model, could we > consider changing this rule? It's a little strict, and I suspect it's > honoured more in the breach than otherwise (by which I mean some, > perhaps many, projects don't bother to hold a selection process every 12 > months). The 12 month rule makes perfect sense for the council and > foundation trustees but it's over the top as a rule for all > projects. > > I would suggest something along the lines of, "selection of > leadership of a project can occur at any time, but can be forced should > a majority of the team feel a new selection is necessary", perhaps > with a rider allowing projects to setup stricter rules if they feel the > need. I'm assuming (since I haven't checked) that project membership > requires agreement of the project (i.e. people can't just join a > project without the existing project members' agreement). > > The idea being that if the current leadership want to step down they > can do so and selection occurs within the project by default. At the > other extreme, if a lead becomes a pita for everyone else on the > project, the rest of the project can oust the lead by majority > decision (hopefully a rare occurrence).
One nice thing about the 12-month model is that it's harder to get on bad terms with a lead that you'd rather wasn't the lead anymore. It's less of a feeling of conspiring to oust them and more of a feeling of "Well, they didn't win the election this time around." However, it's easy to avoid the election if nobody else accepts a nomination, as happened in the desktop project. That saves all the hassle. Thanks, Donnie
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