On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 10:24:51PM -0800, John & Kristen McNally wrote:
> > Jon likes to call me a dictator but the truth is that every important
> > decision about WebMacro has gone to a vote on the list where *all* users
> > were invited to participate--not just developers.
> >
>
> A pure democratic software development process; sounds interesting.
> I'll have to check out the details on your website. Users are of course
> welcome to voice their opinion on any Turbine proposal, but you are
> right they can't veto anything.
The major votes, like licensing, weren't "apache-style" votes, they
were hand counts. Ordinary development of WM proceeds according to
an apache process with veto-style voting. But, even in that context,
as project leader I view it as my job to veto anything which the
user base resists.
True user votes are used to make big decisions like licensing, long
term direction, etc. Things like that happen about once ever month
or two. I think people appreciate being included.
Justin
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