[oi-dev] New Project Lead?

[chrisjones at unixmen.com]

On 2012-09-02 22:22, Nick Zivkovic wrote:
>>
> IMHO, a project lead should be one who contributes code and packages
> to OI. Otherwise, the project lead is just an expendable figure head
> with no real purpose.
>
> In order to set a release schedule, and so on, you have to be
> intimately familiar with the code that is being released.
>
> Before this discussion devolves into a governance orgy, I think that
> all we really need is people who write code, and make it publicly
> available, in a roughly synchronized way.
>
> We should have a network of developers. Not a hierarchy.
>
>> no one else suitable. Just some food for thought I guess. I think 
>> the real
>> question is who is going to select the new Project Leader?
>>
>
> Even if a new project leader is selected by the community and sworn
> in, what difference will it make, other than making OI's situation
> _seem_ less dire?
>
> I think a de facto project leader will emerge from the ranks of
> programmers pretty much automatically. Most likely it will be the
> programmer that has had or is having the most profound impact on the
> OI project.
>
> But that's just my theory.
>
>>


I agree Nick. It was just a thought. :-)


Regards

Chris Jones