Adrian Custer ha scritto: ... > So that is my 'thinking lately'. This is not yet a formal call for no > leadership or new leadership but a response to you about my feelings on > the subject. > > Regardless of your perspective on that particular issue, the fact that I > am even raising the suggestion ought to prompt each of you into a > self-examination of your own position. Probably at this juncture, it > would make sense for each of you members of the PMC to justify > yourselves to the community: explain why you should still be assumed to > have the time and interest to lead both the project and community, > explain to what extent you consider yourselves involved, explain why you > are still on the PMC rather than playing soccer with some kids in the > back yard or playing music with the neighbours. In other words, perhaps > you should act as if you were running for election --- it might help > revitalize the full PMC.
Adrian, I'd say, right on the mark. I agree the PSC is not providing direction, not helping enough users, not reaching out enough (or at all). Most of the coders still around are somewhat involved in uDig or GeoServer, and are caring more about their projects than about the library, which is seen more as a way to share their work with a larger audience (and with each other) than as the main objective of their work. I'm however skeptical that disbanding the PSC can provide more benefits than harm. The current project procedures are all based on some kind of PSC vote, and for the good or worse, they provide some control on the project evolution. I fear that removing that would make the project slip into chaos. Secondly, if we disband the PSC, what then? What I mean is, the people working on GeoTools would remain the same. If you look at the current PSC, it holds 50+% of the current committers? If the current active members cannot provide leadership, without new people that is not going to change, is it? And if we find new people, well, then we can just re-hash the PSC and include those hoping they have enough energy to bend the project in other directions. GeoTools is big, if you want new leardership, what we need is a great coder that can pull over significant changes and cleanups. A OS leader is someone that makes other people _want_ to follow, and to do so, he has to be one that does a lot of he work needed, which also means he's got a ton of time to dedicate to GeoTools (as a whole, not as module X). And he should not just a coder, but also a very skilled person in terms of human relationships, a hard to find combination (but the fact that true leaders are few and far apart is no surprise to anyone, no?). I'm not seeing such a person around at the moment. So I would be happy to rehash the PSC including the currently most active members, but I'm -1 to just disband it without any clear direction forward. Cheers Andrea -- Andrea Aime OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
