Lessons Learned
Christian Iseli
Christian.Iseli at licr.org
Thu Mar 22 14:55:02 UTC 2007
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 19:59:55 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> I dont have a problem with that.
Then I think we are in violent agreement :-)
> What I find poor practice is going
> through a committee /<insert your governing body> before doing routine
> things. Good governance on a distributed project in general is all
> about enabling and facilitating contributors to do what they want
> instead of centralizing all decisions.
yes
> Notifications are easy to do in a
> asynchronous fashion. That's fine.
exactly
> Moving decisions to a committee is
> not. It is very much dangerous to a project to encourage that.
I'd say it depends on the kind of decisions that need to be taken...
> Every
> time we treat processes more important than the individual contributors
> involved we are going to end up damaging ourselves.
I'd tend to agree to that too.
Cheers,
C
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