Re: Draft of Proposal for the GNOME Foundation.

[Joe Shaw <joe helixcode com>]

> > We really can't make a GNOME release without unanimous agreement from all
> > the project maintainers. If Jacob doesn't want to do a gnome-core release,
> > we really can't make him and he can sandbag and delay a release
> > indefinitely. There's simply nothing we can do about that.
> 
> Well, we could just continue to use the old gnome-core release if it's
> compatible.

Right, yeah. 

> I think it's all a matter of how you state it. Yes, clearly we ought
> not even try to force unreasonable release dates on a module
> maintainer. But when you say things like requiring unanimous consent,
> rather than requiring consensus, or just leaving the issue up to
> common sense, that sounds to me like it's giving module maintainers a
> green light to withhold their consent for reasons not directly related
> to their ability to make a release, for example, maintainer of package
> gnome-foo says "I don't agree to this release date unless you also
> include my other package, gnome-bar" or even "I don't agree to this
> release date unless the maintainer of gnome-frozen will accept my
> patch of questionable merit". 

That's a good point. Perhaps we should follow someone's suggestion (I
don't remember who right now) of just not stating this explicitly in the
bylaws at all. It's the way things have always been and things will
probably always be that way.

Joe