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

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On Tue, 9 Mar 2004 21:15, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > Agreement from the developers that it is a good thing and necessary,
> > could turn that "should" into a "must".
>
> There is a problem. You can not give orders. SMGL is not their paid full
> time job.
>
> SMGL must be fun for them. We need more developers/active users.

I waited a few days, hoping this would get more of a run for its money.

Lace I agree with almost all of what you have said, but respectfully think 
you 
might be looking at this particular problem backwards.
        To adequately maintain a section a guru needs to receive the perforce 
 
notifications for that section. They need to know what has been done and by 
whom or by definition, they are not "maintaining" anything at all. Neither 
you nor I would attempt to maintain a section without this knowledge and 
neither any of our more respected developers.
If someone offers to maintain a section but won't subscribe to these perforce 
notifications, then there application for section maintenace must be refused, 
they would be accepted as a general guru or as someone's assistant but they 
can't maintain a section without knowledge of events within that section.
This is a common sense issue (some have it some don't) , I am definitely not 
trying to stop people from volunteering by smothering their freedoms or 
creativity or tangling them up in redtape.
Volunteering to help in any section would be accepted, but without knowledge 
of the sections changes (via perforce notifications) the title "maintainer" 
is meaningless or empty and shouldn't be granted.

Hamish
ps I will stop trying to explain things logically some day soon, old habits 
die hard for me, so despite the fact I have been burned badly and am leaving 
I still want the best for the project and can't sit silently.
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