On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 10:18 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:40:44AM -0400, Max Spevack wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > >>* Who chairs the projects? > > > > > >Not every project has a clear chair or leader. > > > > That right there is something that the Board needs to fix. > > Leader (perhaps aka maintainer), absolutely. Chair of a committee, > yes, but dependent on size of the project of course. Agreed -- we shouldn't be imposing that everything which is a project or SIG be run like it's a government. Especially in cases where we're talking about chunks of coding, strong leadership in the form of a project maintainer is likely to often work better. This is one of the things which is often pointed to as a reason for why the Linux kernel is more successful than the various free BSDs Jeremy