On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Peter Baumann <p.baum...@jacobs-university.de> wrote: > Hi Jonathan, > > while OSGeo and rasdaman share the strive for quality we come from different > approaches: OSGeo believes in the power of committees and strong regulation > whereas rasdaman has a culture of unbureaucratic, technocracy based > collaboration. In other words: good ideas are always welcome - we live this > daily, based on humanistic ideals, not on law enforcement.
I disagree with this conclusion. Both allowunbureaucratic and technocracy based collaboration, as proven in many projects such as QGis, OSGeo live, ... It is only when a large part of the PSC has a different opinion then the benevolent dictator that a difference between both arise. If such occasions arise the project definitely has a problem, and I don't think having one person deciding the way forward as the default option is a good one. I should add that the benevolent dictator style is not always succesful, also in important projects. See eg glibc [1]. I do think it can be succesful if the "BDFL" shows leadership and I think it is a good model to avoid some bikeshedding. But in every sucessful BFDL open source project you see that there is in fact a larger group of people involved (similar to a PSC), and I don't know any examples where the BDFL chose a direction which was opposite of this groups opinion and where this worked out well. Kind Regards, Johan [1] eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library#Debian_switches_to_EGLIBC_and_back "In March 2012, the steering committee voted to disband itself and remove Drepper in favor of a community-driven development process" _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss