[Incubator] Fwd: Rasdaman as a 'Benevolent Dictatorship'

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Daniel - excellent summary, in a sense the whole PMC is a dictator.

It is also not terrible if individual or groups take on different roles.
- a party acting as an architect of the codebase (and using their veto based on codebase concerns) … yes.
- by the same token a representation from the user community may veto a proposal based on it not including budget (or arranging volunteers) for documentation.
- a product perspective may veto a proposal based impact on tghe business model of downstream packages. (example balancing documentation / vs organisations that provide commercial training).

For Geoserver a -1 vote comes with a fairly heaving consequence as it is sometimes necessary to bust out design docs / task plan in order to negotiate a "reasonable alternative" that still respects commercial timelines / community release schedule / etc… Making a veto have a significant cost of time and effort.

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Jody Garnett


On Friday, 2 August 2013 at 12:16 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> * Respondents may vote "-1" to veto a proposal, but must provide clear
> reasoning and alternate approaches to resolving the problem within
> the two days.
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