On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Michelle Olson <michelle.olson at sun.com> wrote: > So, it's not just us then? All communities have lazy electorates? I don't > get your point and I'm not sure how GNOME community has anything to do with > why the OSOL Constitution 2009 didn't pass.
The constitution was approved by ~80% of the people who bothered to vote, yet it failed. Why? Because not enough of the electorate bothered to vote. We *JUST BARELY* got quorum again this year. If that doesn't tell you that most of the OpenSolaris Community members couldn't be bothered with this whole governance thing, I'm not sure what will. Glynn is saying that this apathy isn't unique to OpenSolaris, but is common across other open source communities - there are two types of people who populate these types of community - those who like to "do" and those who like to "govern"; the overlap between the two types is rather sparse. -John
