Simon Phipps wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007, at 01:33, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > > >> While I can't speak for the other members who voted for the amendment, >> I can tell you that I will never vote to delegate editorial control - >> as distinguished from layout, navigation, style, and backend >> management - of shared content to any CG. I made clear my objections >> to that on-list and during debate on the call. The OGB has already >> taken a decision to solve that problem is a different way. >> > > Why does that rationale not hold for all other aspects of the > community, Keith? How can you ever trust the ON team not to subvert > the core of the operating system? How can you trust the packaging > system to have integrity? How can you trust that the documentation > will not denigrate or misrepresent a key function? How can we all > trust the OGB not to make arbitrary decisions? > Indeed, and that was my argument in the discussion we had.
I don't believe that we should hold one demographic of the community (technical) to another (editorial). Keith's argument (IIRC, Keith, please correct me if I recall incorrectly) was that editorial content is more political; but I don't see any less contentious issues in the technical community (default shells, packaging, etc. have all had contentious points that were solved within the community) >> Trust is built from accountability and a track record of good >> decisions. The approach we have chosen is a win on an accountability >> basis and a wash on track record. >> > > > So you're saying that the right resolution to the ftpd bug would have > been for the OGB to form a sub-committee that did the work of the CG > responsible for it? That's a stretch, IMHO. I don't believe that's what Keith is saying. While I agree with Keith's first sentence there: "Trust is built form accountability and a track record of good decisions."... my point is that unless we allow the community to self-govern and create its own content, it won't ever get the chance to build up a track record of good decisions. We can't continue to appoint OGB-appointed boards and committees to do everything, otherwise why have we allowed for self-governance in the first place? Teach a man to fish... no? cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
