[ogb-discuss] RFC: Emancipation Community

[Simon Phipps]

On May 12, 2008, at 15:13, Peter Tribble wrote:

> Hm. I thought the pressure was to completely restructure, not to
> creatively reinterpret the constitution regarding CGs - which really
> need to be rethought entirely.

Rewriting everything assumes we have experts amongst us and also  
assumes we can wait a year or so for everything to be re-invented and  
then voted upon by the community. I don't believe either of those to  
be true; instead, it would probably tear us apart. Consequently we are  
better off indulging in as little YAGNI-work as possible.

I think the community we've ended up with can be described using the  
terms and shapes in the existing constitution. Although (as some are  
keen to point out) we aren't living it exactly, we are sufficiently  
shaped by it to not need a full rewrite. I believe we can pull the two  
towards each other.

I am keen to explore here how we can make carefully targeted  
interpretations that allow us to "draw a pencil line round the  
community" as I put it last weekend. We can then if necessary amend  
the constitution to reflect our practice.

S.