This is not a new conversation; it has been the central work of incubation - which is proving unsuccessful in this case.
It was raised some time ago - I remember heartfelt conversations in foss4g 2013, working on governance model is part of what osgeo incubation is about (it is a bit of the advocacy we do as a foundation with the developer community). In this case we have failed to convince the project to adopt the open governance model that we focus on as a foundation. Bruce has been very patient on this, allowing time and the positive example of other projects to speak for our approach. I cannot think of any software foundation that allows benevolent dictator style - since on of the main values of a foundation is vendor neutral governance! Counter example welcome -- Jody -- Jody Garnett On 3 May 2016 at 04:05, Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > First of all, I'm a bit disappointed that this issue is only raised > now, when the final vote for graduating is taking place. For the > future I think it should be clearer for projects what rules have to be > obliged much earlier. > > Just this week, in another conversation I mentioned that you need > rules for when things go bad, and not when things are going well > (which luckily is the case for Rasdaman). So I think we should focus > on what resolution we want when things "go bad". > > It may be my knowledge of English, but I'm not sure how I should > understand: "Should such consent exceptionally not be reached then > Peter Baumann has a casting vote". > > If it means that if the PSC reaches 50% - 50% or a lot of abstintent > voting, Peter can take the decision, then I think it is a logical rule > and I see no issues with it. > > If it means that if a majority of the PSC votes for the proposal that > it can still be overruled by Peter Baumann (or the chair of the PSC), > then I'm against it. I do believe that would be an unlikely scenario > but at such a time I don't think we can still call it an OSGeo project > at that point. > > Kind Regards, > Johan > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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