oooooh ponies!<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Gerhard Killesreiter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerhard@killesreiter.de">gerhard@killesreiter.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Thomas Zahreddin schrieb:<br>
> You asked for a suggestion, here are my thoughts:<br>
><br>
> Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2009, 15:14 -0700 schrieb Karoly Negyesi:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> OK all you wiseasses, now you pissed me off enough to bring these<br>
>> issues into wider public, so tell me what to do in these situations.<br>
>><br>
>> 1) There is a Drupal module, older than my boots, gets a much needed<br>
>> rewrite by two guys. Comes a third one, and he is, of course, welcome<br>
>> to the party. There is a discussion of what we do and what we not to<br>
>> do. Come next day, said third guy does what we all three agreed not<br>
>> do. Following a debate, he packs his toys and starts a new project.<br>
>> Said third guy contributes heavily to Drupal project for extremely<br>
>> long but quality and quantity does not always correlate.<br>
><br>
> So what can we learn form this (and many other stories)?<br>
><br>
> My answer to all three examples:<br>
><br>
> we need a better way to make decisions, since this sounds like the third<br>
> one does not agree in the end and to lay the responsibility in the hand<br>
> of teams: team members should not only be developers of the module, also<br>
> developers interested in cooperating / interacting (e.g. via an API)<br>
> with this module and _users_ of this module and maybe developers of<br>
> drupal core (since this is also a 'module' that will interact with a<br>
> contrib module). I want to call this circle decision board.<br>
><br>
> These boards / circles follow the principles of decisioning by<br>
> sociocracy (no crazy people - a practical approach for some European<br>
> companies) feel free to ask for more details and / or check<br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocracy</a> .<br>
<br>
<br>
"Sociocracy is a system of governance using consent-based decision<br>
making among equivalent individuals and an organizational structure<br>
based on cybernetic principles. "<br>
<br>
The problem in Open Source Software development is that the individuals<br>
are usually not equivalent.<br>
<br>
This is either explicit (one is the maintainer of the project and the<br>
other isn't) or implicit (one is longer with the project or whatever).<br>
<br>
<br>
> Means e.g. all decisions are made in consent. Means in difference to<br>
<br>
Ponies for everybody...?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Gerhard<br>
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