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[Soren Hansen <soren@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 10, 2011 1:13 AM, "Paul Voccio" <paul.voccio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I'm not sure why this frustration is directed at me.

Because you're talking about calling a meeting as being no big deal,
which might be true if everyone were in the same office, but when we're
spread across the planet, it *is* a big deal.

> My point is sometimes you need to get people to make a decision and
> waiting for a week for everyone to toss their .02 cents doesn't always
> work.

Now I'm confused.  I thought you were arguing in favour of weekly
meetings while I was arguing in favour of just raising subjects on the
mailing list whenever you wanted. What are you arguing in favour of?

> If the idea is to have subteams who care about small parts of code
> then I should be able to go find those people to make a decision.

Sure. And you can. We're right here on this very mailing list. In a
project that is spread this far across the planet, you simply cannot
expect to be able to just "call a meeting" and have everyone turn up.
Any time you find will be in someone's evening and in someone else's
middle-of-the-night, and most of us probably also have busy calendars.

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