On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: >> 3) Liaison > ... >> This model has many advantages over a single self appointed person >> having all control, but doesn't really add any overhead in normal >> circumstances. I'd recommend to template this format and suggest it as >> an alternative (or the primary?) model of appointing a liaison. > > I think a reasonable alternative model is: > > * Alice Adams (and her successors) are currently recognised by SPI as > the authoritative decisionmakers for Gnomovision. > > * In the event of any dispute within the Gnomovision project, SPI > will aim to > (a) abide by the consensus of the Gnomovision community > (b) act in the best interests of the Gnomovision project > [choose one] > provided always that SPI will honour the principles in SPI's > Framework for Associated Projects. If such decision is necessary, > it will be made, after public consultation, by the SPI Board. > The SPI Board's decision, as to who is recognised by SPI as the > authoritative decisionmaker for Gnomovision, will be final. > > Ie I think the SPI Board should be willing to act as a governance > appeal body of last resort, if that's what the project wants. That > will avoid the project having to set up some kind of self-perpetuating > council or committee whose only purpose is to deal with SPI. > > Obviously not every project will want this.
An "appeal body of last resort" may not be a bad idea, or maybe it is, but in any case this is not at all the same as I proposed. I think the above is much fluffier and leaves some uncertainty: Imagine a project with three active/core developers. One is the self-appointed liaision. The liaison dies, and the remaining two core developers start a bitter fight. How will the SPI board even be able to know what is in the best interest of the project? It's to some degree a subjective decision. It could even be a political decision such as GPL vs BSD and whatever other dividing lines those two fighting developers might represent... For reference, the Drizzle Liaison process is here: http://spi-inc.org/meetings/minutes/2011/2011-08-10/ ... removing the names it could be easily templated as is. henrik -- henrik.i...@avoinelama.fi +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
