Re: A summary of some open discussions

2020-01-10 Thread nylxs
On 1/9/20 8:31 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I can't parse this. then use bison or antler

Re: A summary of some open discussions

2020-01-10 Thread Ruben Safir
On 1/8/20 4:37 AM, Andreas Enge wrote: >> All volunteer organizations are top down, even Debian... > That is clearly wrong, and well documented for Debian. Actually it is correct. Debian has governance and although it has elections and it is clearly top down It is designed with project leaders

Re: A summary of some open discussions

2020-01-10 Thread Thompson, David
On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 4:28 PM Brandon Invergo wrote: > > As does Richard. He largely only retains responsibility for > project-wide decisions while the rest is delegated. In the overwhelming > majority of cases he lets the maintainers, webmasters, etc. do their > jobs independently. Many of

Re: GNU - Principles and Guidelines (was: Re: A GNU “social contract”?)

2020-01-10 Thread Jean Louis
* Andreas Enge [2020-01-06 22:36]: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 04:05:51PM +0100, Andreas R. wrote: > > Andreas Enge, in response to the difference between a "Social contract" and > > a > > "Code of Conduct" writes on the 6th of November[1]: > > "a social contract, which is a "mission

Re: A summary of some open discussions

2020-01-10 Thread Jean Louis
* Andreas Enge [2020-01-06 22:01]: > Hello, > > On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 08:34:54PM +0100, Andy Wingo wrote: > > On Mon 06 Jan 2020 15:05, Brandon Invergo writes: > > > Ludovic Courtès writes: > > >> As a side note: I think authority is not something one should take for > > >> granted. We’re a

Re: A summary of some open discussions

2020-01-10 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Brandon Invergo > Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 21:28:02 + > > > Linus gives a lot of delegation. In the end he is the last merge point, > > but he completely trusts direct subtree maintainers, who can work the > > way they wish. > > As does Richard. He largely only retains responsibility