On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 04:51:17PM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Well, for prior organizations we haven't allowed having more than one > liaison for *any* organization to avoid confusion. Why would OpenWRT be > different? One of the two needs to be the main liaison, and the other > an alternate.
I realize there's a chance you'll consider this another past mistake which shouldn't be repeated, but less than 2 years ago we allowed OpenVAS to have three "authorititive [sic] decisionmakers" according to a similar constitution to OpenWRT's charter which also specifies mostly consensus-based decisionmaking. http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2007-06-18-iwj.2.html/ This is not unprecedented, in other words. In the past, we have just followed instructions from any one of the OpenVAS people, if I remember right, except regarding "change control" (which I assume to mean changing the liaisons) which required 2 out of the 3 to agree. Anyone who remembers otherwise, please say so. My expectation is that for OpenWRT we'd just follow instructions from either Gregers or Andy, which under their rules would have to already result from consensus within the OpenWRT developer community, and do our best to keep both of them in the loop (e.g. via email CCs). If one of them says "that's not what OpenWRT decided!" about an instruction from the other before the relevant action has been taken, then we have a clear and simple way to deal with that: wait until the discrepancy is resolved by the third person named in my revised resolution. As others have said, if differing stories between the two liaisons become a recurring issue, then we'll deal with it like the rational and intelligent human beings which we all are; we're not automata and can use human judgment as needed. It's certainly not a perfect solution, but they seem to want more than one liaison, possibly for cases where one of them is unavailable. In any case, to whatever extent it's flawed, I think it's still sufficiently workable to approve today, and then tweak later if a better solution arises that's acceptable to SPI and OpenWRT. Now I'm going to update the copy of my resolution in the agenda to include the revisions I already posted to this list, as well as Michael Schultheiss's treasurer's report. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
