[IAEP] Call for options brainstorming: what does SLOBs decide and how

[Mel Chua]

I'd like to call this topic up again - see
http://blog.melchua.com/2009/10/23/slobs-coming-up-with-a-decision-making-process/
for the latest blog post on the subject. It's my hope that we'll be
able to finish this* at our next SLOBs meeting a week from today.

Please share your thoughts!

--Mel

*not set it in stone, but release a first version of our
decisionmaking process, if you will, and start to use it.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Mel Chua <mel at melchua.com> wrote:
> At the first meeting of the new SLOBs, we realized that we didn't have a
> clear listing of the scope of decisions SLOBs should make, or a way to
> do it (so far everything's been done by 100% consensus, but that's afaik
> not because we decided that's how we should make decisions, it's just
> what we happened to fall into - and it becomes problematic when SLOBs
> members dissent/go out of town for a week or two/etc.)
>
> Tomeu and myself were recruited to come up with proposals that SLOBs
> could decide between, in order to fix this. We kicked off some
> brainstorming on IRC (see transcript at the link below) and now appeal
> to the metabrain for more ideas.
>
> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Requesting_a_SLOBs_decision
>
> This is currently an options-brainstorming page for several things:
>
>     * What kinds of decisions SLOBs should make (a small and exact
> list; everything else is Not A SLOBs Decision)
>     * What kinds of decisions SLOBs should explicitly not make (for
> common issues that we should put a redirection pointer on)
>     * How a SLOBs decision is requested
>     * How a SLOBs decision request is triaged
>     * How a SLOBs decision is made
>     * How a SLOBs decision is announced
>     * How a SLOBs decision is amended
>
> These are not final decisions or procedures. This page is currently
> gathering options to decide from. Please add your ideas to the page, and
> discuss options here. We'll be going through these options this Friday
> (23 Oct) on #sugar-meeting at 14:00 UTC (the next SLOBs meeting).
>
> --Mel
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