Richard Lowe wrote: > Brian Gupta wrote: >>> 1.4 Involvement >>> >>> There is a strong intention for this to be a community grass roots >>> project, with open contribution. We hope for this project to be >>> consensus driven, though ultimately the project leads will need >>> to dictate direction if that proves unfeasible for delivering >>> a timely release. While many of those decisions can be made within >>> that specific project area, based on requirements, there may be a >>> real need for a sole arbitor, Ian Murdock. >> >> This block concerns me.. I would hope that the project follows >> standard procedures; which, as far as I can tell, don't specify sole >> arbiters. >> >> If there are sole arbiters, it should be a natural effect of a lack >> of participation, not by dictation. >> > > It also would seem to directly counteract any desire to be a binary > distribution named "OpenSolaris" given it would be under the sole > control of somebody other than OpenSolaris.
I agree with you in principle..however.. At the end of the day, someone somewhere needs to decide something to make things move on as effectively as possible. I don't expect Ian to want to or have to do this at all. Perhaps this could be a small technical committee instead? Glynn
