From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8OgY-0002F9-5L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:55:26 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k72Ls5CR027710; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:54:05 GMT Received: from mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (mail-relay-3.tiscali.it [213.205.33.43]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k72Lq6r1010988 for ; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 21:52:06 GMT Received: from c1358217.kevquinn.com (84.222.84.87) by mail-relay-3.tiscali.it (7.3.110.2) id 44D0C44100009612 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:52:05 +0200 Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 23:51:47 +0200 From: "Kevin F. Quinn" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] metastructure model (was Re: Sunrise contemplations) Message-ID: <20060802235147.65d585f7@c1358217.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <44D077D8.3030907@gentoo.org> References: <1154366720.17142.126.camel@rivendell> <44D077D8.3030907@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.3.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_.ytAtAzUeDw=HZFvgJhGkvD"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 7ea9d848-3ea0-4c60-966a-b827c24bb39f X-Archives-Hash: 80b74b210f60f9b5676032485dfa7e02 --Sig_.ytAtAzUeDw=HZFvgJhGkvD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:00:56 +0200 Thierry Carrez wrote: > Excerpt from the metastructure model, chosen by the majority of devs > last year (and not my model): > [...] > * It may have one or many leads, and the leads are selected by the > members of the project. This selection must occur at least once every > 12 months, and may occur at any time. > [...] While we're on the subject of the metastructure model, could we consider changing this rule? It's a little strict, and I suspect it's honoured more in the breach than otherwise (by which I mean some, perhaps many, projects don't bother to hold a selection process every 12 months). The 12 month rule makes perfect sense for the council and foundation trustees but it's over the top as a rule for all projects. I would suggest something along the lines of, "selection of leadership of a project can occur at any time, but can be forced should a majority of the team feel a new selection is necessary", perhaps with a rider allowing projects to setup stricter rules if they feel the need. I'm assuming (since I haven't checked) that project membership requires agreement of the project (i.e. people can't just join a project without the existing project members' agreement). The idea being that if the current leadership want to step down they can do so and selection occurs within the project by default. At the other extreme, if a lead becomes a pita for everyone else on the project, the rest of the project can oust the lead by majority decision (hopefully a rare occurrence). --=20 Kevin F. Quinn --Sig_.ytAtAzUeDw=HZFvgJhGkvD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE0R539G2S8dekcG0RAr8/AJwLo8rrpFk6cHFaNitxseBfXaQ60wCeP287 dgDPpboKbT7C99q1XKFFvgY= =OQ7J -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_.ytAtAzUeDw=HZFvgJhGkvD-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list