Michael Bell wrote: > Hi Sergei, > > Sergei Vyshenski wrote: > >> Afraid I can not. As this could upset several of the core, which is >> the point I would rather escape. >> Sorry. > > > This is part of an open discussion - I mean the conflict not the ... ;) > >> Nonetheless, having a board like in a private club or lodge may be >> superior and more predictable compared to democracy games. > > > Ok, if I interpret the discussion until here correctly then we need > perhaps something like a three class system - board members, active > developers and normal users. So we would have a democracy of peoples > who are qualified by technical expertise. Does this be safe enough? > > The following things must be discussed. So please take them as proposals: > > 1. Board members must/should be active developers. > > If we want that the active developers elect the board then we must > define who are active developers.
The reason for making board members active developers is to avoid a split between the board and the developers. The risk of having a board made completely of developers is that user issues my end up being ignored. What about having the majority of board members limited to developers and having a minority of members selected with a more "open democratic process". > 2.1. A person is an active developer if he contributes code in the > last 1/2/3 years which moved into the official source code revision > system. > > 2.2. A person is an active developer if he contributes documentation > in the last 1/2/3 years (perhaps we should define a volume here). > > Please take this like usual as a first, fast and usually erroneous > approach. So who has better definitions? > > Michael ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ OpenCA-Devel mailing list OpenCA-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openca-devel
