<div dir="ltr">Jody,<div><br></div><div>I see a couple lessons:</div><div><br></div><div> - the real act of openness is to let go of control/ownership to the community.</div><div> - the importance of defining a mechanism to make decisions when consensus is less obvious (*before* a problem arises).</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing. </div><div><br></div><div>Fondest regards,</div><div>Frank</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:07 PM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ian Turton originally shared, he is a good person to follow (and a good person).  <br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 9:41 PM Landon Blake <<a href="mailto:sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com" target="_blank">sunburned.surveyor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks for posting that Jody. It was an interesting read, and a great example of why documented and clearly understood governance is so important for open source projects.</div><div><br></div><div>Landon<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">The following was pointed out on twitter, as motivation for projects to consider writing down how decisions are made (PSC, or active committers, or ...)<div><br></div><div><a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/753646/" target="_blank">Who controls glibc?</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_4333457235395018964m_5167069947705162158m_3577510790315025244gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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