On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Christoph Lameter wrote: > > I would rather favor having individuals making those decisions. > > I would rather not have individuals making important decisions.
I never suggested such an idea. > > Committees are useful if you want to slow down any possible dangerous > > decisions or if power needs to be controller but Committees are not > > useful for day to day operations. > > That depends on their size and internal organization. For example > the ftpmaster team for Debian basically is a committee and they appear > to do very useful day to day operations .. Umm. They dont work as a committee. And even their disagreements spoil over to debian-private. Anyways maybe we can frame it in the form of a committee with a chairman able to do and delegate things. I talked with Nils on irc about that. I just dont want the common committee nature which I have seen. It will make swift action impossible. Such a committee for daily operations is deadly for an organization. > > I would like this to be as non-political as possible. So far we have > > had a pretty informal structure and it worked mostly. > > We are going to need the politics at a certain point anyway; see what > happened to Debian. Without the constitution which has the same amount > of politics things would get (be?) messy. This is a double edged sword. Too much regulation can cause a mess as well.
