-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/10/2014 08:49 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >> * C: I think lazy consensus will work most of the times, but for >> a >>> community of Fedora's size, 72 hours probably is not enough >>> time to speak up. I'm afraid it will lead to a stronger >>> dominance of people working on Fedora full-time (a.k.a. Red >>> Hatters). > > Yeah, I think the time depends on how big the action is — 72 hours > is just an example. Some things need to be discussed and > communicated over weeks or months. On the other hand, I would hope > that council members would be able to at least say "Hold on — I > need to think about this one some more" within a few days. Just a note of comparison as the CentOS Board uses a similar 72 hour timeframe for decisions. The goal with that timeframe is to set a /bottom/ so that in the very rare case that something must be decided upon immediately, it's possible to get things discussed and closed in a timely fashion. The Board must still reach consensus within that timeframe, but is permitted to use the 72-hour rule to skip a vote from an unreachable Board member if that is necessary. That said, in the CentOS Project model, it is the Chair's responsibility to track down people who haven't responded. Even when on vacation, most of the time people are reachable within that time period. The Chair needs to get on the phone or whatever, talk to that person, get their decision, and report it back. So it would be very very very rare for a vote to happen in that "needed immediately" fashion to actually exclude a member. In practice, discussions are allowed to go on for as long as necessary to reach consensus, not bound by any time rule other than general expediency and related to the topic at hand. - - Karsten - -- Karsten 'quaid' Wade .^\ CentOS Doer of Stuff http://TheOpenSourceWay.org \ http://community.redhat.com @quaid (identi.ca/twitter/IRC) \v' gpg: AD0E0C41 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlQQgRAACgkQ2ZIOBq0ODEED8QCfcI6Y9KYMldId6TFq6GbYKAAw CYMAn0JeiXDoGeAppkqUXN/ge9olzlku =pp68 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ board-discuss mailing list board-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/board-discuss
