Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri March 14 2008 19:55:37 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: >> I suggest that the best way to have good people on the committee is to >> have some process by which one person or group of people get to decide >> that it's time to replace person X with person Y,

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri March 14 2008 19:55:37 Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > I suggest that the best way to have good people on the committee is to > have some process by which one person or group of people get to decide > that it's time to replace person X with person Y, and not simply wait > around for person X to

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 11:40 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I do not presume to be omniscient. But I believe lack of time, > which is reflected in lack of contribution to the debate on a topic, > and, even worse, lack of participation in the voting effort, is > definitely a root cau

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 23:46 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Neither is the argument I'm making. The argument I'm making is that > > because it's likely there are better ways of doing things than the way > > we're doing things now (ie, "though foo is th

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:05:02 +1000, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 08:25:40AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:37:46 +1000, Anthony Towns said: >> > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:54:50PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: >> >> And, just to make thin

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:06:07 +1000, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:12:54AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> Redoing the new blood thing once again is unlikely to have much of an >> effect, really. I think we need to find some of the root causes of >> the mal

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:20:47 +1000, Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:32:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> An alternative is to throw out the member who is youngest. > No, that would again ensure stagnancy in the group, with the older > members being perma

Re: Q: Marc Brockschmidt: "tight-knitted groups of friends"

2008-03-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi Marc, On 14/03/08 at 12:40 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > >> OTOH, experience shows that enforced addition of new members doesn't > >> work as one would expect. > > What case are you re

Re: Q: Marc Brockschmidt: "tight-knitted groups of friends"

2008-03-14 Thread Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt
Raphael Hertzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: >> OTOH, experience shows that enforced addition of new members doesn't >> work as one would expect. > What case are you referring to? > > I don't think it ever happened up to now. Constant pressure f

Re: Technical committee resolution

2008-03-14 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Why is no one responding to the fact that the last ingestion of > new blood did not solve the problems? [...] Myself, I have not yet confirmed whether that claim is fact or not, and if it did not solve the problems, whether it eased the

Re: Q: Marc Brockschmidt: "tight-knitted groups of friends"

2008-03-14 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > OTOH, experience shows that enforced addition of new members doesn't > work as one would expect. What case are you referring to? I don't think it ever happened up to now. In most cases, the additional members have been approved but only by a f