<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Galen Charlton</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gmc@esilibrary.com">gmc@esilibrary.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:32 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Eg-oversight-board] Release manager, Package releases vs Software releases, Membership fees<br>To: "Elfstrand, Stephen F" <<a href="mailto:stephen.elfstrand@mnsu.edu">stephen.elfstrand@mnsu.edu</a>><br>
Cc: Kathy Lussier <<a href="mailto:klussier@masslnc.org">klussier@masslnc.org</a>>, "Evergreen Oversight Board +SFC (<a href="mailto:evergreen@sfconservancy.org">evergreen@sfconservancy.org</a>)" <<a href="mailto:evergreen@sfconservancy.org">evergreen@sfconservancy.org</a>>, "Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich" <<a href="mailto:alexey.lazar@mnsu.edu">alexey.lazar@mnsu.edu</a>>, "Curie, Carrie L" <<a href="mailto:carrie.curie@mnsu.edu">carrie.curie@mnsu.edu</a>><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr">Hi,<div class="im"><br><br>On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Elfstrand, Stephen F <<a href="mailto:stephen.elfstrand@mnsu.edu" target="_blank">stephen.elfstrand@mnsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br>> “only one person submitted his name as a candidate for the position” <div>
> Yes, I imagine it’s a lot of work to volunteer for. If the Board had some</div><div>> funds, it could offer a stipend to the release managers and get more </div></div><div>> candidates.<br><br>One thing to bear in mind on this point is that the developers' decision-making on matters like this is almost always based on consensus. Until such point that Evergreen's pool of developers gets quite large -- specifically, large enough that it's no longer the case that all significant developers are personally known to one another -- I would actually find it unlikely for a release manager election to actually be contested by the time of the formal vote unless there were irreconcilable differences of opinion about the technical direction of the project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In other words, if the current release manager had *not* chosen to run, somebody else would have.</div><div><br>Regards,</div><div><br>Galen<br>--<br>Galen Charlton<br>Manager of Implementation<br>Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Galen Charlton</div><div>Manager of Implementation</div><div>Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:gmc@esilibrary.com" target="_blank">gmc@esilibrary.com</a></div>
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