On Jan 4, 2007, at 12:33 AM, Joe Andrieu wrote:
Tantek, there is no governance for uF other than by cabal
IMO, that is the way it should be. You don't put new hires on your company's steering committee, and the House doesn't approve presidential appointments, the Senate does -- in fact, the US senate is an excellent example: older, cooler heads to offset the firey "voice of the people" the house is supposed to represent.
That said, I think there should be bit more visible superstructure around just who is in this "cabal". It seems to me like the Editors/ Authors of the various specs form the majority it of it, but perhaps that should be made a bit more apparent, and the "powers" of an editor (essentially, the ability to veto changes to the wiki, it seems) outlined a bit and some information about how to become an editor (AFIACT, make numerous, quality edits to the Wiki that the other editors approve of).
In summary: the people who have written the spec, the editors and authors, are the most knowledgeable about them, and should have a disproportionate amount of influence in what goes into the spec and what doesn't. I think one thing that may trip people up is that just because a wiki is used, that doesn't mean that Wikipedia style governance will (or should) be present.
One more thing: this isn't a list about discussing meta-topics (in theory). Maybe a new list should be created for the discussion of meta- issues (such as the additions of new lists), as some of us aren't interested in reading that.
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