On 2015/09/04 10:53 AM, Matthew Brett wrote: > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 2:33 AM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 5:41 PM, Chris Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> wrote: >>> 1) I very much agree that governance can make or break a project. However, >>> the actual governance approach often ends up making less difference than the >>> people involved. >>> >>> 2) While the FreeBSD and XFree examples do point to some real problems with >>> the "core" model it seems that there are many other projects that are using >>> it quite successfully. > > I was just rereading the complaints about the 'core' structure from > high-level NetBSD project leaders: > > "[the "core" and "board of directors"] teams are dysfunctional because > they do not provide leadership: all they do is act reactively to > requests from users and/or to resolve internal disputes. In other > words: there is no initiative nor vision emerging from these teams > (and, for that matter, from anybody)." [1] > > "There is no high-level direction; if you ask "what about the problems > with threads" or "will there be a flash-friendly file system", the > best you'll get is "we'd love to have both" -- but no work is done to > recruit people to code these things, or encourage existing developers > to work on them." [2]
This is consistent with Chris's first point. > > I imagine we will have to reconcile ourselves to similar problems, if > we adopt the same structures. Do you have suggestions as to who would make a good numpy president or BDFL and potentially has the time and inclination to do it, or how to identify and recruit such a person? Eric > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > [1] > http://julipedia.meroh.net/2013/06/self-interview-after-leaving-netbsd.html > [2] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion > _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
