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[Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>]

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 13:14, Eric Sandall wrote:
> I just meant in general, and to say it again, that we should fire a warning
> shot across their bow, first, which I've already done for the inactive
> ones, and got responses back for most of them and removed appropriately.
>
> -sandalle

I understood from previous discussions that you are in *general* agreement 
with this. 
I was hoping to get acceptance of this by all team members, so it could be 
accepted as policy from now on. If we all agree on things (or at least 
establish a majority rule), then we all know what to expect from each other  
in the future :)
Maybe things such as this need to be advertised as voting items at the next 
meeting, and non-attendance at the meeting (or not organising proxy voting if 
unable to attend) disallows anyone from future dissent, unless they are 
proposing a working substitution ? Things like last years devel grimoire 
removal, the series of complaints from people after the fact (not involved in 
the official vote during the meeting) and the utter frustration of revisiting 
the same simple issues on a regular basis could be solved with either a good 
mail list voting policy (similar to apache were +1 means you are actively for 
it) or using the meetings as a voting booth.

What I would like to see are policies, rules and guidelines. Not because I am 
a fascist pig, but so we all know exactly what to expect from each other. If 
we outline specific points we need not worry that we will be stuck with them 
for eternity, as changing something already documented is a lot easier than 
first finding out what the status quo is and only then being able to lobby 
for or against it. 
This is most likely an issue to be decided during the restructure post 1.0, 
and even if we delay it until then, at least we all know it is an item on the 
agenda.


Hamish
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