Lessons Learned

[Rahul Sundaram]

Christian Iseli wrote:

> No need for lengthy discussions in general.  Just an advance warning
> with a short deadline please.
> 

I dont have a problem with that. What I find poor practice is going 
through a committee /<insert your governing body> before doing routine 
things.  Good governance on a distributed project in general is all 
about enabling  and facilitating contributors to do what they want 
instead of centralizing all decisions. Notifications are easy to do in a 
asynchronous fashion. That's fine. Moving decisions to a committee is 
not. It is very much dangerous to a project to encourage that. Every 
time we treat processes more important than the individual contributors 
involved we are going to end up damaging ourselves.

Rahul