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On 12 April 2013 15:09, Angus Salkeld <asalkeld at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 12/04/13 00:47 +0000, Joshua Harlow wrote:
>>
>> Ok good to know, I was thinking that the 'state of the project' talk would
>> have a big goal that said PTL can say I will try to do this for these 6
>> months.
>>
>> Like a presidential campaign :-P
>
>
> That sounds odd. Does a PTL have that much impact?
> This is open source, people come with patches that they want, not what
> the PTL wants to accomplish. To me a team of core developers that work
> really well together is much more important. And that is really the
> job of the PTL - to make sure everyone is working well together.
>
> Whether or not blueprints/features get developed is not (to me) a
> sign of a failing PTL (more likely developers found more import
> things to work on).
>
> -Angus

There is a social aspect here though - when multiple folk agree on
what needs to be done, but you need to chop it up into pieces small
enough to work on, the coordination aspect can have some value.

-Rob

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Robert Collins <rbtcollins at hp.com>
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