On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Martin Rubey wrote: | Gaby: | | I did read your amendments, and I do believe that they are a good (very likely: | necessary) complement to democracy. However, given our personalities (for | example: my personality), there will always be disagreement about certain | things. The model I proposed has as intention to encourage people to keep | their branches synchronised with trunk.
I do not believe my proposed model will remove disagreements. However, I would like to take political issues to a different entity that just developers. | | This would be adressed also by the idea of a college: | | > * A College (or Steering Committee) whose job is to make sure that | > the project is not over taken by an individual. I truly believe | > we need that. I've spoken to and received emails from some | > original Axiom developers who also promote the College view. | > | > The College's job is not to make technical decisions. The | > College will be discussing and making decisions about political | > issues. Any developer can at any time request the College to | > consider any matter of his/her importance. | > The College appoints maintainers and release managers. | > | > The College should not consist only of developers. Users should | > be represented. In general, people with either long term | > committement or interest in Axiom should be represented there. | > | > I suggested to keep the number of College members small. I | > suggested 7 for concreteness. | | I thought that the idea of voting what goes into trunk was simpler to | implement, but I'm open to any model that avoids leaving people (also Tim) in | the dark. Certainly, in my amendement, I see Tim or Bill as a Global maintainers, so I don't see who he will be left in dark. I aslo see people like Juergen Weiss, Barry Trager, or you, as members of the College (assuming they are willing to). | How is the college formed? Initially, the College would be formed by proposal by people on this list (assuming potential members accept the task) and everybody subscribes to axiom-developer would vote. From there on, the College would replace leaving members by vote. | How will the college decide internally? Large consensus or if necessary vote. | Currently | there are not so many developers - are there more than ten? I believe the College should no be the union of developers. The union of developers is the maintainers. | Maybe you could add this to MathAction, When I received your original proposal, I replied to MathAction with the suggested amendment. For some reasons, it does not show up. Bill do you know why? -- Gaby _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
