governance, fesco, board, etc.

[Max Spevack]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Friday 08 June 2007 13:57:18 Axel Thimm wrote:
>> Doesn't that short-cirquit fesco out of the loop? E.g. if fesco is
>> supposed to be overseeing those two teams it sounds like
>>
>> a) board decides on Halloween/May Day ETA
>> b) fesco interacts with feature/releng teams and lays out a plan to
>>    fulfill the board's input.
>> c) fesco presents to the board the results, e.g. whether this is
>>    possible and what the constraining parameters will be (which
>>    features will make it etc)
>>
>> If this is considered too much hierarchical procedure then these two
>> teams need to be attached to the board directly.
>
> I overlooked this myself.  IMHO the release team and feature team and QA team
> should present their thoughts/desires to FESCo to decide on the schedule
> and -that- would be presented to the board for final sign off.

Fair enough.  I would like FESCO to be as lightweight as possible, while 
still providing necessary and proper oversight.

That's sort of my leadership/management theory in general, actually.

--Max