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- On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 09:01 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
- The TSC talked about it and agreed a particular direction. Its clear
- that some people don't like the direction so they just ignored it and do
- their own thing anyway.
- This is the wrong way to go about making decisions and I'm extremely
- disappointed people are doing this.
- It's maybe worth pointing out that this change was discussed on the
- mailing list at the time. During that thread, two members of the
- TSC spoke in favour of the change and neither they nor anybody else
- pointed out that it was contrary to the TSC's stated policy.
- So, although I agree it is a bit unfortunate that meta-oe has decided
- to go off and plough its own furrow, it doesn't seem that the TSC made
- much of an effort to dissuade them at the time and I can understand how
- Martin might have interpreted the responses he got as approval.
- At this point I assume I'm free to ignore the TSC since we now have
- precedent for it?
- As far as I know you've always been free to do that. It's up to the TSC
- to enforce its own decisions if it wishes to.
- All that said, I have had a suspicion for a while that the TSC is
- perhaps becoming superfluous to requirements. When the TSC was first
- set up, the environment within which OE operated was very different:
- this was a time before the Yocto Project and before oe-core, when
- everything was in a single tree, a vast number of people had
- indiscriminate commit access, and there was no identified maintainer who
- was empowered to make decisions about which patches went in and which
- didn't.
- Nowadays it seems (and I don't intend this as a criticism) that most of the
- technical direction is coming from the Yocto side and the OE project
- itself is mostly just going along for the ride. Plus, every layer does
- now have its own maintainer so the original power vacuum that the TSC
- was created to fill no longer exists. In this sort of scenario it seems
- as though OE is rather over-equipped with governance mechanisms (the
- TSC, the e.V. board and the e.V. membership itself) that aren't
- necessarily accomplishing very much.
- Also, now that we have a multiplicity of layers rather than a single
- monolithic tree, it isn't entirely obvious where the TSC's authority
- begins and ends. I think everyone would agree that oe-core falls under
- the aegis of the TSC, but beyond that it isn't totally obvious which
- layers do and don't count as part of "OE" for that purpose.
- And finally, it's been apparent during the last few TSC and board
- elections that it is a bit of a struggle to attract high-quality
- candidates to stand for membership of either body. I don't think we've
- had an election which was actually contested for quite some time: this
- makes the elections themselves seem like just a waste of everybody's
- time.
- So, maybe it's time that we as a project had a bit of a re-think
- regarding what sort of governance structures we actually need and want
- in this day and age.
- p.
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