>> Sebastien's original question[2] is unanswered perhaps because it's >> been deemed maybe-already-answered[3] or "peripheral" > > To the contrary, it seems to me that it remains unanswered only > because it has been deemed a very important question, one worth formal > consideration by a decision panel and the oversight board.
Decision-making at SL is by consensus whenever possible (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance#Decision_Panels). One indication of how well our community successfully empowers people to do the things they think will best help Sugar is how *rarely* we need Authority From Above to swoop down and tell us How Things Shall Be. Every time we clarify our thoughts and come to a conclusion together, we make a decision, *and* we improve our ability to make decisions in the future. The way we learn how to more rapidly and clearly make decisions by consensus is by practicing decision-making-by-consensus. It's a tough thing to learn, as is the art of being a do-ocracy (with coding as one of many ways of Doing Something). That's how I see it, anyway. Anyway, in the interests of Doing Stuff, I filed a mailing list creation ticket (ownership set to bernie since he's the Infrastructure lead) http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1419 to take care of 4.1, and to give us a place to do the rest. The next thing I'll do (this evening) is to find the "What is a SL Project?" thread, do a similar summary of where we stand / blockers, and try to nudge 4.2 and 4.4 onwards (though it looks like Sebastian's pretty much got things from here); it sounds like Marketing (led by Sean, who's made his thoughts clear in this thread) should be driving consensus on 4.3, or possibly counseling the Decision Panel on it if the SLOBs announce/appoint a decision panel with a chair and a deadline for making a specific choice. These are all suggestions that I happen to think make sense and plan on moving forward on in the hopes that others will join me or course-correct me. Pushback/patches welcome. ;-) --Mel _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel