[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck

[Chad]

Which is why I suggested an in-between person to help facilitate the
developer <-> communities relationship.

Chad

On Jan 12, 2008 3:39 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > So, we usually have just to trust that people who
> > come and ask for
> > > things can really represent community, and are not
> > going to undermine
> > > something in evil ways.
> > > Usually we like to trust, and love to trust. But
> > sometimes a single
> > > campaign against can shatter it all.
> >
> > This might be a good place for local ArbComs to step
> > in. They can
> > determine consensus and make the request to
> > developers. Developers
> > trying to determine consensus, especially on
> > projects in languages
> > they don't speak, is pretty much impossible - it
> > comes down to a
> > (hopefully lucky) guess.
> >
>
> How should the devs know which communities have an
> Arbcom that needs to approve the bug?  I think any
> system put in here needs to, by default, not interfere
> with the devs doing their work.  Giving communities
> more opportunities to raise a flag before
> implementaion is good.  But requiring the devs check
> with X before every implementation, or any process
> external to Bugzilla, is bad.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
>
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