Am 11.05.2011 um 10:48 schrieb Erik Larsson:

> IMO, it's wise to keep the number of owners exactly two. That way the project 
> is somewhat protected from a possible future power struggle, while not being 
> fully dependent on one single individual. What do you think about this?

Having an odd number of project owners makes voting processes a lot easier.

> If you agree with that approach, then as project 'owners' I would nominate 
> myself and preferably someone who has a long history of involvement in the 
> project, through mailing list participation and otherwise. Jeff Mancuso of 
> ExpanDrive is one name that springs to mind. Tomas Carnecky, Sam Moffatt, 
> Graham Perrin have also been around for a long time and have shown real 
> commitment. (All are welcome to argue for/against themselves or someone else.)

Would be nice to hear from Jeff, Tomas, Sam and Graham what they think about 
this.

My opinion on the matter:

Jeff Mancuso wrote on May 6th:

>> Thomas has graciously given the MaCFUSE repository back to ExpanDrive
>> [we registered it for this exact purpose a couple months ago] and
>> we're the owners of the organization right now.


A couple of months ago ... There has been absolutely no development until 
Anatol stepped up a week ago. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the guys at 
ExpanDrive did not do anything with the repository for months, neither did 
Tomas. Not even the svn trunk had been imported. I would certainly expect much 
more involvement from a future project owner. This kind of reminds me of the 
whole "Amit situation".

I think I don't have to remind anybody that Anatol got us the project ownership 
at Google Code not Jeff, Tomas, Sam or Graham who have been part of the 
community for a long time. I'm all for having many contributors/committers that 
know the MacFUSE code base but I'm not that fond of giving away the project 
ownership just to be back where we started in the first place. Please don't get 
me wrong here, I'm very grateful for the work and time everybody has put into 
MacFUSE and its support in the mailing list.

> The way I see it, the Google code project is going to be used for updating 
> 'CurrentRelease.plist' and 'DeveloperRelease.plist' (in SVN), posting 
> downloads and updating wiki information, while the actual development will be 
> done through github (Google Code doesn't offer git hosting as far as I can 
> tell). So the Google Code project will be mostly a funnel for what is 
> considered an 'official' release.

I would prefer git, too. The macfuse organization owned by ExpanDrive might 
come in handy.

Regards,
Benjamin

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