[Mageia-discuss] About decisions in Mageia

Frederic Janssens fjanss at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 22:29:01 CEST 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 22:16, Romain d'Alverny <rdalverny at gmail.com> wrote:

> >
> > I completely agree, communities are great, but i think these stuff should
> be
> > advisable only, and we should get board members who can decide on these
> > things, because they are knowledgable in their own area.
> >
> > I don't think the community should be disregarded by the board, but
> sometimes
> > the board should decide differently by the community because the
> community
> > doesn't know everything.
>
> Then it should know.
>
> I know this may sound like an innocent wish, but I mean it.
>
> The "board" will have to motivate every decision/move it takes -
> especially if this very decision was to go against most
> recommandations/wishes from the community (he, who knows, it may
> happen).
>
> We expect Mageia, not to disclose, but to publish all information,
> data, metrics about the project, developement, tasks, maybe about
> product usage and about decisions. Or at least, not to keep them
> hidden on purpose.
>
> That will require to identify what useful metrics are and to
> understand them for what they're worth (and not). That will require
> some education on what metrics we can collect (think about privacy and
> right here), how we collect them, how we use and learn from these.
>
> Not that it will be easy or without mistake at first. But that's what
> we expect as well.
>
> Romain
>
> Great.
I am interested in new technical means by which heterogeneous (in background
and knowledge) groups can meaninfully communicate.
In general, but Mageia seems to me to be in a good position to innovate in
that direction.

-- 

Frederic
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