meritocracy (was: Re: [MPlayer-cvslog] r22386 - trunk/DOCS/tech/new_policy.txt)

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:06:46AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
[...]
> Meritocracy for me means that if you have been doing all the work over
> an extended period of time then you should eventually get to make the
> decisions, rather than being told what to do by a boss or committee.

yes, i fully agree as long as the decissions are contained in the part on 
which the person works, that is coding style or implementation details should
be the developers decission but
as soon as the decissions significantly affect things outside the area where
the specific developer is working on it is no longer just his decission but
the decission of all affected people
some examples would be
* writing code which requires a more specific compiler than before (this
  affects the whole project not just the specific subpart on which the
  developer works)
* writing slow, very inefficient or bloated code ...
* adding exploits, goatse pics, ...
* writing code which is very hard to maintain or even unmaintainable
  that is code noone except a single person understands
* checking in mixtures of several changes with a size >200k this makes
  future maintaince, debugging and reviewing of the change very hard
* in case of docs for example if you would decide to change to ms-word
  then even with you writing >90% of them i would not accept it as it
  simply would make the docs inaccessable to too many people

in the cases above it should not just be the specific developers decission
what to do!

[...]
> > so who was best at being maintainer? i think arpi was better than the
> > current root team, thats just my oppinion nothing more and nothing less
> 
> This is a logical fallacy.  The current root team is not the project
> leader, hence they cannot be worse at being project leader.

the current root team is the one who make the final decission on who
gets or looses their svn account (they have overridden the project developers
democratic oppinion and at that point have de facto become leader


> 
> > > You use admin more in the sense of project leader.
> > 
> > hmm maybe i should s/admin/leader/ ?
> 
> Yes, project admin and project leader is not the same thing.

already did s/admin/leader/

[...]
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Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? -- Diogenes of Sinope
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