Dave, as far as I can tell, your description does not match the roles
and responsibilities assigned to area directors by the process. You
have in the past written I-Ds and suggested changes in those
responsibilities to more closely match your vision. The community has
not adopted those documents.
Until and unless the community expresses a different view, I have to
agree with Brian.
Yours,
Joel
On 11/11/15 2:54 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
On 11/11/2015 11:39 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
If we want to stop the ADs spending large
amounts of time on document quality, we have to take away their power of
decision over what gets published.
That statement is wrong.
I think I understand it, but it's wrong.
The reason it's wrong goes to the heart of how ADs misunderstand their
role in the context of a community collaboration in which they,
ultimately, have not initiated the work or created the work, and they
are not the critical actors in any eventual success or failure of the work.
The core word I used was "community".
The role of an AD is to facilitate (and reflect) the community.
So ADs need to stop viewing their roles as entailing the making of
/their/ decisions and instead view their role as /reflecting/ community
need and benefit.
Based on community information, not their personal preferences.
d/