Hi, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Murray Cumming"> > >> This is generally caused by the habit of only making decisions in >> meetings, instead of making decisions on the mailing list. And a tendency >> to think that all decisions must be unanimous. > > A majority of the decisions this year were made on the mailing list, with a > quorum consensus rather than majority. Plenty slipped through, and tougher > decisions were deferred to meetings or ultimately not made, but largely due > to team coherency issues more than anything else. There were *very* few > times that the Board suffered from consensus gridlock this year, which is a > good sign.
Backing Jeff up here - in the two years since you were on the board, we made major steps forward in making decisions on the mailing list. I think this is one of the most positive aspects of the reduced board size I encouraged, mixed with a semi-formal mailing list voting policy we brought in while I was chairman. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list