From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA30602; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:49:57 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA01384 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:49:57 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from web41213.mail.yahoo.com (web41213.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.46]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id i2K6oQKW028768 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 07:50:26 +0100 Message-ID: <20040320064955.84346.qmail@web41213.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [67.242.203.84] by web41213.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:49:55 PST Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 22:49:55 -0800 (PST) From: Vasili Galchin Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: Proposed community structure (was Re: OCaml's Cathedral & Bazaar) To: Matt Gushee , caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr In-Reply-To: <20040320063047.GB26090@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Miltered: at nez-perce by Joe's j-chkmail ("http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr")! X-Loop: caml-list@inria.fr X-Spam: no; 0.00; caml-list:01 ocaml's:01 gushee:01 mgushee:01 havenrock:01 2004:99 gerd:01 stolpmann:01 gushee:01 englewood:01 manure:01 mgushee:01 havenrock:01 ignores:01 --lao:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk X-Keywords: X-UID: 263 Linus Torvalds Eric Raymond ... --- Matt Gushee wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:30:12PM +0100, Gerd > Stolpmann wrote: > > > I hope we don't need such a committee. First we > should try to seek a > > consensus. I suppose this will almost always be > successful, and over > > time we will have a situation where the voices of > some people will have > > more weight than the voices of others, simply > because they are naturally > > respected. > > > > So I would suggest to postpone such a committee > until it is really > > needed, when everything else failed. > > Yes. As a veteran of many committees (though in a > very different context > than this), I can testify that the structure and > process of an > organization can far too easily become an occupation > in itself. If you > have to decide how to form a committee, well that > leads (backward) to > the need to decide how to decide ... and surely one > of the reasons Open > Source has been so successful is that formal > organization has been kept > to a minimum, making it very easy for motivated > people to get involved. > > -- > Matt Gushee When a nation follows > the Way, > Englewood, Colorado, USA Horses bear manure > through > mgushee@havenrock.com its fields; > http://www.havenrock.com/ When a nation ignores > the Way, > Horses bear soldiers > through > its streets. > > --Lao Tzu (Peter Merel, > trans.) > > ------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr > Archives: http://caml.inria.fr > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: > http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners