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On 2008.06.08 10:12, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> looks like every nominee wants the council to be more technical so I
> have a few technical questions for you:

[snip]

Like it or not, the council are our engineering managers, not detailed 
designers. The councils role is to broker agreement and promulgate 
standards once they have been agreed by those who have to work with 
them.

Looking back over the last council and its recent meetings, its clear 
that a lot of detailed design has been attempted at the meetings. 
That's because all engineering managers love to get some real 
engineering to do. 

Before the flames start lets consider the Package Manager Specification 
(PMS) as an example. For this (very black and white) illustration, 
forget the council discussions to date and imagine that representatives 
of all three package managers went to council and said in unison 
"We have agreed this specification". 
Are council really going to start picking holes in it and say no?
At the meeting ?

Council will have spent some time before the meeting reading it and 
running question and answer sessions with all interested parties, so at 
the meeting they can put it to a vote to record its formal adoption.
If this preparation showed were issues needing more work, it would be 
removed from the agenda unless there was a need for a public airing of 
the issues, then there would be a brief statement, not a long debate 
that tried to fix the issues there and then.

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Regards,

Roy Bamford
(NeddySeagoon) a member of
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