Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project

2009-03-18 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:51:44AM -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Given that SPI will just continue to add affiliates over time, I > personally think that allowing *any* organization to have more than one > authoritative liaison is a mistake. It doesn't scale for the number of > projects SPI needs

Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project

2009-03-18 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:09:52AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > Well as it stands I think the resolution is flawed. We can not have more > than one liaison. It needs to be reworded in a way that the liaison has > delegation authority or something if they want a backup, but a "pair" of > equals i

Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project

2009-03-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 10:51 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote: > Jimmy, > Given that SPI will just continue to add affiliates over time, I > personally think that allowing *any* organization to have more than one > authoritative liaison is a mistake. It doesn't scale for the number of > projects SPI ne

Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project

2009-03-18 Thread Josh Berkus
Jimmy, > 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

Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project

2009-03-18 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
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.

Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project [revised]

2009-03-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Don Armstrong writes ("Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project [revised]"): > For example, if a liason is acting contrary to the wishes of a > project, and the project reports that this is the case to SPI and > removes the liason, but the liason reports that it is not the

Re: Resolution 2009-03-16.jrk.1: OpenWRT as associated project [revised]

2009-03-18 Thread Ian Jackson
Josh Berkus writes; > Actually, that's not what I'm personally worried about. What I'm > worried about is: These are the right questions, I think. Given what I'm about to say I've changed the names to Alice and Bob of the FreePLNK project, to make it clearly hypothetical. > -- If Alice says "P