Re: A Call For Open Governance Of X Development

An unnamed Administration source, Egbert Eich, wrote:
% Keith Packard writes:
%  > 
%  > Current XFree86 governance is not a precise mirror of current commitment to
%  > the window system.  Most of the current board of directors have not been
%  > involved in the window system for years.  If you feel that the core team is
%  > responsible for governance, then even within that body there are many
%  > members who have greatly contributed in the past, but who have moved on to
%  > other interests.  I feel it is the responsibility of those who are no 
%  > longer involved in the window system to abdicate their authority.
% 
% On the XFree86 core team we have no procedure to 'retire' people.

[...]

True. They are simply expelled and publicly slandered. Or, rather,
that's how it looks from here, absent the release of clarifying 
information by XFree86 and/or Keith Packard.

Kurt
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The optimum committee has no members.
		-- Norman Augustine