Re: clear policy discussions

[Phil Holmes]

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From: "Trevor Daniels" <address@hidden>
To: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>; "Janek Warchoł" 
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 6:08 PM
Subject: Re: clear policy discussions


> a) a release-meister with responsibility to take all decisions.
> That's what Han-Wen used to do, I believe.  It worked
> quite well, although Graham will have more of an inside view
> than I.  Would need to be someone with a similarly wide
> overview.


In principle, I'm not against giving people authority to take decisions 
where there aren't hard-and-fast rules.  However, there is a very 
substantial downside with this in an environment such as LilyPond.  Given 
our poor recent history of being able to achieve consensus on fairly simple 
things (<> vs s1*0 anyone) there's a significant possibility of large 
clashes where the Release Meister makes a value judgement with which others 
disagree.  I could envisage a stable release being pushed out because the RM 
thought it optimum, but another team member being significantly annoyed 
because, say, it had a bug that stopped his music setting.  All hell then 
starts.

That's the benefit of rules - we argue over the rules slightly 
dispassionately, not over the value judgements.

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Phil Holmes