Hi, Alex: > and even making sure we have 1 person who is both DebianGIS and > Ubuntugis for coordination.
without getting too presumptuous, Frankie L. is an obvious person to approach, but failing that that a crossover person could be me, but tbh I'm not really sure how a PSC would actually benefit UbuntuGIS or OSGeo. A PSC is good for making strategic and political decisions, but 95% of our issues are technical ones where the wider pool of developers participate in "may the soundest idea win". The main strategic decision we have right now is the repo re-naming, which I think most of us are in fair agreement about anyway. I'm all for breathing life into the project in whatever way we can, but at the same time am concerned about adding new layers of bureaucracy which might morph into a time+energy sink/inefficiency, and avoiding the situation of too many chiefs & not enough braves. Another thing to be concerned with in small groups like ours is to avoid the appearance of a cabal, where new contributors don't feel part of the technical decision making group, and we desperately need those new contributors to be part of the technical decision making group.. On the other hand I fully accept Alan's concerns about his bus factor, in DebianGIS for a long time we've relied on Frankie in the same way. just some thoughts, Hamish _______________________________________________ UbuntuGIS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/wiki
