2008/9/8 Ross Gardler ross.gardler@oucs.ox.ac.uk:
Sorry, I don't understand.
The methods I describe are in use in a large number of highly succesful communities and, according to a previous mail from Thomas to be identical to the one (informally) used to reach the current proposal, i.e. lazy consensus.
Am I missing something or is this merely a lack of clarity in what I was saying.
Ross
They are used when appropriate. When you need to present people with a fairly complete whole and fast there are better options. There are times when the most important thing is to get a decision rather than worrying about how.
Of course later on you can say how we should of done it but the way taken worked and when you consider that people could have just shrugged and walked away but are instead now moveing along a line that should lead to a functioning WMUK I think our way worked okey.
Or to put it another way the initial setup was done in the IRC channel because everyone actually doing stuff to do with the initial setup was in that IRC channel. There simply was no wider group around to refer wider decisions to. Now there is.