[ogb-discuss] RFC: Emancipation Community

[John Sonnenschein]

Sorry, forgive me for being dense here...

How do you picture this proposal going down?

So, I come to the OGB thinking "You know what, emancipation the
project is perhaps out of scope, maybe it should be promoted to
emancipation the community", I propose the community charter. what
happens next, assuming that the community is seen by the OGB as a good
thing ( and therefore not derailed ) ?

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:
>
>  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.
>
>
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