Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-04-18 Thread Bdale Garbee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) writes:

> Obviously that means those people have rather less time on their
> hands.  I think this is the main cause of the TC's current
> largely-wedged state

I don't personally think that the TC suffers primarily from members 
having limited time to devote.  I think the core problem is a fairly
loosely defined process for decision making that leaves us open to 
being schizophrenic about timing, and with a demonstrated inability
to discern when we're reaching concensus and what to do when we
aren't.  Adding more people isn't likely to fix that.

> and I think it could be solved by widening the
> circle of people so that less is demanded from each one.

A larger committee might be a good thing for lots of reasons, but
I'm not convinced it will help the problem I think you're trying
to address as much as this implies.

Bdale


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Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-04-18 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bdale Garbee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080418 19:18]:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) writes:
> 
> > Obviously that means those people have rather less time on their
> > hands.  I think this is the main cause of the TC's current
> > largely-wedged state
> 
> I don't personally think that the TC suffers primarily from members 
> having limited time to devote.  I think the core problem is a fairly
> loosely defined process for decision making that leaves us open to 
> being schizophrenic about timing, and with a demonstrated inability
> to discern when we're reaching concensus and what to do when we
> aren't.  Adding more people isn't likely to fix that.

Agreed.




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Andi
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Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-04-18 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi,

I guess the idea is that (a) new member(s) will "bring along"/"make happen" 
the structures & procedures which seem to be missing...

Which is not totally far out - at least if this is communicated to the new 
member(s) ;-)

More people alone won't change anything. But wasn't that clear from the 
beginning?


regards,
Holger


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