Re: [oe-commits] Koen Kooi : Revert "ecore: catch up with the new SONAMEs; move to autosplitting"

[Philip Balister <philip@balister.org>]

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Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 14:23 -0400, Cliff Brake wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>>> If we are to have a core team as the governing body for OE then I would
>>> like to see it taking a more active role in overseeing the project (in
>>> particular, to guide policies for technical issues and not merely focus
>>> on administrivia such as the formatting of commit messages or
>>> Signed-off-by lines), and for this to be done in a more transparent way.
>>> If the current members of the core team are, for whatever reason, not
>>> willing or able to discharge those duties then (much as I hesitate to
>>> call for this) perhaps it's time to hold elections and appoint new
>>> members in their place.
>> One possible path is to:
>>
>> 1) figure out how to get members added to the eV that is already in place.
>> 2) hold elections for a board
> 
> Agreed, that sounds like a good thing.  But, I'm not sure that the eV
> board would necessarily be the same thing as the core team or "steering
> committee" that would make the day-to-day decisions.  
> 
> My understanding of German law is pretty sketchy but I'm guessing that
> the main function of the eV board is to be legally responsible for the
> operation of the organisation and, as such, it probably requires a
> rather different set of skills than one would need to provide technical
> or even administrative oversight for the operation of the OE development
> project itself.  In particular, given that the eV is (obviously)
> constituted in Germany and hence that the authoritative copies of all
> the legal documents are presumably those drafted in German, I suspect
> that it would probably be a dim idea for anybody with a less than fluent
> grasp of that language to serve on the board.  

The kde ev documents are here: http://ev.kde.org/. I don't think there 
is any issue having non-German's on the board. In fact I would be 
unhappy if there was such a restriction in place.

The OE articles of association are based on the kde ones.

Philip

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