This idea appeals to me, as someone who used to do a lot of Sage development but is much less active now. I would be willing to serve on such an advisory board if it came into existence.
Op woensdag 26 juni 2024 om 02:57:57 UTC+2 schreef Matthias Köppe: > The purpose: Giving a formal role in the project to individuals who > had a major involvement in the project (as Sage developer or in > another function) in the past (but did not recently/currently). > > There would be a clearly defined workload and set of expectations; low > but nonzero. Example: "Meet 3 times a year synchronously, read and > comment on <= 5 pages of material per year." > > Rationales: > > 1. Many of us are perfectionists. When we haven't had the time or > energy to follow the day-to-day development in a project in a while, > putting our minds back on an old project can be extremely stressful: > We are reminded of loose ends, ambitions that did not pan out, Trac > tickets that got stuck, promises that we made but could not keep. > Because of such emotional costs, it is safer to stay disengaged. > That's why it's crucial to define the workload and expectations, to > make clear for everyone: "No, it is not expected that you catch up > with everything, it is not expected that you come back and do Sage > development." > > 2. Open source governance is necessarily based on participation. The > new Advisory Board would give a voice in the governance structure of > the project to past major contributors who cannot commit to full > participation in the project. > > > Comments? Interested in serving on the board? Nominations? > Please respond here or write to me. > > Matthias > -- > Matthias Koeppe -- http://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~mkoeppe > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/e6846a04-24ed-42cc-b87b-2d86a9d717f6n%40googlegroups.com.
