I've been on enough "open governance" boards and in enough rfc threads to not be so casually unskeptical.
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@wycats has a long history of positively run projects with this kind of governance. I'd be shocked if it were a sham.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
I would be as well! But remember, a system does not need all actors to be bad for the system to be bad.
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and "open" is a fuzzy term. E.g. Joyent's "node advisory board" was explicitly closed, but in many ways…
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"open" is fuzzy, but Ember/Rails/Rust/Postgres-style RFC-based governance is less fuzzy
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agreed. But I have come to think that "open" is a less than useful term re gov models.
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governance is about power, direction, and culture. Openness is one tiny aspect of that. Informs little.
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it's more interesting to ask which decisions get made, which jobs get done, by whom, and who is excluded.
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understanding that ALL options carry heavy unpleasant trade offs once the project is big enough to matter.
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and before then, almost any process will be fine. So success teaches nothing.
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This is something I've thought a great deal about, and my preferred governance model is about this.
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you've been through some similar hazing to me :) Best of luck.
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