[Members] Voting criteria
Ulrich Staudinger
us at activestocks.de
Wed May 11 06:25:20 CDT 2005
Bart van Bragt schrieb:
> Ulrich Staudinger wrote:
>
>> I have to admit that i do not doubt the democratic approach - it's by
>> far the best approach to bring different opinions together.
>
> Hmm, is it?
It is if you want to keep people together. A hierarchy is very often
producing good decisions for a part of a group and bad decisions for the
rest. (Don't want to go into details here...)
>
> IMO having a democratic project doesn't attract more developers. Your
> project just needs to be popular, accessible (documentation, readable
> code) and there needs to be strong leadership. Having something under
> the JSF flag doesn't guaranteee any of these points.
It won't attract more developers just because it's democratic - but
it'll help to create an active community - a community where active
people can benefit from roles like "opinion leader", "oppositional
force", "word leader", "activist" and such. Of course a control instance
like the board could still reject decisions made by the community.
It's just that only a mailing list is not very decision friendly - only
those which are active discussers tend to decide things for themselve,
but all those passive readers usually don't respond or react to a thread.
Ulrich
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