Jean Abou Samra <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > There is this section in the Contributor's guide: > > http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/contributor/meisters > > It lists four roles with decision power in the project.
I think that is a fundamental misunderstanding. The roles are not roles with decision power but rather roles with oversight and responsibilities: those are person keeping tabs on certain activities performed by multiple others. > This dates back to older times where the team was > quite different. These days, I don't think we have > any formal structure like this apart from the Patch > Meister role which remains. I wouldn't want to see > formal governance processes either. There weren't formal governance processed at any point of time. Every contributor does what they like to do. The Meisters were trying to track efforts in order to avoid people working at cross-purposes and were providing guidance and structure in their area of responsibility. > Ok to remove this? It doesn't match what we are currently doing. Not as much because it was a bad idea, but rather because keeping volunteers engaged and dealing with fluctuation was really kept working by the efforts of informal Ubermeister Graham and slowly decayed after his departure from the project. -- David Kastrup
