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On Oct 20, 2009, at 12:32 AM, Ryan McDougall <sempu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Frisby, Adam > <a...@deepthink.com.au> wrote: >> Ter pretty much summed it up - both it and the irc channel are >> fairly low-volume, and the 'topic' is restricted to only 'personal' >> or 'meta' matters; such as discussion of approval of commit rights. >> >> It's pretty standard practice across open source projects with more >> than 5 committers for the committers to have a mailing list for >> these purposes, since realtime chats aren't practical across >> timezones. >> >> Adam >> > > I am not sure I'd agree just how standard a process it is. > > The one's I've been involved with or otherwise have some detailed > knowledge of, have never had them; including such big names as GNOME, > Fedora, and Linux. For example the GNOME foundation list is not only > world-readable, but anyone can join: > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list . Actual > foundation members are voted by the community at large. > > Basically the way they are able to operate is, they don't distribute > commit access according to monolithic vote of knighted members; they > have a system of maintainership, and each maintainer gives access > rights to his module/repo as she sees fit, in a web of trust. > > One of the complaints one sometimes hears is how monolithic the > project is (even if the code-base is modular). Maybe the move to git, > and the maturation of the code allows more distribution and > specialization of responsibility? > > My concerns with core mailing list are: > > 1. It's "secret", ie. not world readable. I can understand limiting > membership to voting partners to avoid bikeshedding, but I can't > understand secrecy of any kind in an open source project. > > 2. Decisions made there (aside from commit rights) affect other > people, and they not only have no voice to represent themselves, they > don't even get to know what is being said about them. That doesn't > seem fair somehow. > > The knowledge that someone can read what you write makes you think > harder about what you say. Maybe a private list makes the problem of > disagreement within core worse rather than better? I haven't the > faintest idea who this snowcrash guy is, but when I was a topic of > discussion on -core, I remember not liking it at all. > > As for the issue of timezones, I understand that completely! Which is > why I wish you guys used ML more frequently! :) > > My intention is not to bike-shed, but to be productive. Either opensim > core is open to this point of view or it's not, and we move on from > there. > > Cheers, and much love! > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-dev mailing list > Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev