I'm not sure the result of all this should be elaborate procedure. I do think it is worth personally contacting serious contributors who strongly oppose a plan, and letting them know that they have been heard (and how their opposition has been taken into consideration / affected the proposed plan), before announcing the plan to the world.
On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:16:51 -0700 (PDT), Anthere anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
Procedures (arrrggggg) should be something like
- propose a project on meta
- explain the proposal and the benefit of the project on meta
- list people interested on meta
- mention it on the goings-on
- head to the mailing list and talk about it
- toss well
- regularly put sumaries on meta
- let rest for some time
- toss again
- regularly put sumaries on meta
- let rest for some time
- look for support
- remind people
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