On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 11:00 -0400, Ryan Lortie wrote: > On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 14:59 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > > * Do you have any concrete ideas of what 'strong and coordinated > > technical leadership' would involve? It sounds very nice and all, but > > I'd like to hear some specifics before I cast my vote. ;) > > I think it's premature to say "this is the solution" which is why I've > limited myself to identifying a (perceived) problem. I am simply > stating that we should move in a direction of more coordinated technical > decision-making. > > That said, it's true that I've had some ideas of how this *might* look. > > The most obvious solution to me is the creation of a technical board, > directly elected with membership restrictions by affiliation (basically, > just like the foundation board).
Let me first point out that I think that such a technical board is a very great idea and that I do believe that we should put it in place as soon as possible. Now my question. How would this technical board be elected? Who will get voting rights? - Will all foundation members get a single vote? - Will projects get a vote too? And if so, at which point will a project get a vote? As soon as it's part of GNOME's modules? Its external dependencies too? Who gets to cast a project's vote (its maintainer?)? - Will GNOME's (event) sponsors get a vote? - Will companies involved in GNOME's development get a vote? Basically the question is: how do we identify the stakeholders and how do we make sure that all stakeholders are appropriately represented at this technical board? I fear that if we don't allow representation of such stakeholders, that the legitimacy of the technical board wont be strong enough to technically steer GNOME in such a way that it'll make a real difference. [cut] > I did intend to start a discussion. Good! Thanks a lot Ryan! Cheers, Philip -- Philip Van Hoof freelance software developer Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list