2008/9/9 Andrew Turvey raturvey@yahoo.co.uk:
ok, I'm going to be frank. I hate this way of making decisions. Doing it on IRC or the email list might be quick and dirty but it means that the decisions are not easy to understand, record or justify. I've asked half a dozen questions and none of them have been readily answered. Saying "that's what we decided" frankly isn't good enough. It's no way to learn from past mistakes, and easily descends into bickering - like we've seen just recently.
I've been trying to answer everyone's questions, which ones did I miss? I thought I'd answered them all.
I suggest all decision making is done on the wiki. All past decisions need to be put up there - with explanations and justifications so they are open to challenge. All decisions should be affirmatively made and agreed.
All decisions have been put on the wiki and all are up for further discussion. We haven't been putting all the reasons up there because that's a lot of work, but if you're not sure about a particular decision, I'm sure whoever made it (check the page history) would be happy to explain the reasons and if you disagree we can discuss it. It's impossible to "affirmatively make and agree" decisions when there isn't a set group of people with the right of consultation. Once we're up and running and have a clear membership base, things will be done much more formally, at the moment that just isn't possible.
In short: If you have a problem with anything in particular, speak up, otherwise please stop complaining about procedure, it's unproductive.