Re: [fab] I have a few questions for the board.

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 10:18 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:40:44AM -0400, Max Spevack wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > >>* Who chairs the projects?
> > >
> > >Not every project has a clear chair or leader.
> > 
> > That right there is something that the Board needs to fix.
> 
> Leader (perhaps aka maintainer), absolutely.  Chair of a committee,
> yes, but dependent on size of the project of course.

Agreed -- we shouldn't be imposing that everything which is a project or
SIG be run like it's a government.

Especially in cases where we're talking about chunks of coding, strong
leadership in the form of a project maintainer is likely to often work
better.  This is one of the things which is often pointed to as a reason
for why the Linux kernel is more successful than the various free BSDs

Jeremy