Hi, Jim Grisanzio wrote: >> http://www.red-bean.com/dav/presentations/Poisonous-people.pdf >> >> Has some relatively obvious steps that can be taken - it's taken from a >> recent >> talk at the Google 2006 Summer of Code mentor summit at the weekend. > > > Interesting preso. Thanks for sending it. > > I wonder about slide 17: "Voting is a last resort ... a healthy > community should rarely need to vote." I wonder what they mean by that?
I suspect they mean voting in terms of technical issues or direction as a project - preferring consensus among the people actually doing the work and skilled in the relevant area. Voting for annual elections for a foundation board is perfectly acceptable. [This is mostly how GNOME works. Other communities differ greatly] Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
