Lessons Learned

[Christian Iseli]

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