On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn > <d.s.seljeb...@astro.uio.no> wrote: >> On 02/15/2012 02:24 PM, Mark Wiebe wrote: > >>> There certainly is governance now, it's just informal. It's a >>> combination of how the design discussions are carried out, how pull >>> requests occur, and who has commit rights. >> >> +1 >> >> If non-contributing users came along on the Cython list demanding that >> we set up a system to select non-developers along on a board that would >> have discussions in order to veto pull requests, I don't know whether >> we'd ignore it or ridicule it or try to show some patience, but we >> certainly wouldn't take it seriously. > > In the spirit (as I read) of Dag's post, maybe we should accept that > this thread is not going anywhere much, and summarize: > > The current situation is the following: > > Travis is de-facto BDFL for Numpy > Disputes get resolved by convening an ad-hoc group of interested and / > or active developers to resolve or vote, maybe off-list. How this > happens is for Travis to call. > > I think that's reasonable? > > As far as I can make out, in favor of the current status quo with no > significant modification are: > > Travis (is that right)? > Mark > Peter > Bryan vdv > Perry > Dag > > In favor of some sort of formalization of governance to be decided are: > > Me > Ben R (did I get that right?) > Bruce Southey > Souheil Inati > TJ > Joe H > > I am not quite sure which side of that fence are: > > Josef
Actually in the sense of separation of powers, I would vote for Chuck as president, Travis as prime minister and an independent release manager as supreme court, and the noisy mailing list community as parliament. (I don't see a constitution yet.) Josef > Alan > Chuck > > If I missed someone who gave an opinion - sorry - please do speak up. > > I think it's clear that if - you, Travis, don't want to go this > direction, there isn't much chance of anything happening, and I think > those of us who think something needs doing will have to keep quiet, > as Dag suggests. > > I would only suggest that you (Travis) specify that you will take the > BDFL role so that we can be clear about the informal governance at > least. > > Best, > > Matthew > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
