[32] in Project_DB
Re: Who plays King Solomon?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Wed Mar 5 09:14:53 1997
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:18:03 -0500
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, project-db@MIT.EDU
From: rferrara@MIT.EDU (Robert V. Ferrara)
Bill, I think your proposal on how to best broker requests on the project
DB is a useful, practical way to go. So let's do it.
Also I concur with your suggestion here:
> So: As self appointed autarch of configuration (see previous message
>:-) ), I suggest that Miki cut down the super user list to only hogue,
> azary, ganderso, rar, rferrara, dbaron, tregan, and vkumar.
Thanks, Bob
At 6:17 PM 3/4/97, Bill Cattey wrote:
>Across this list have come various questions about the configuration and
>schema of the projects database system. It is unclear to me who has the
>final say in what should really be there.
>
>There are pending questions about the list of kinds of status, and who
>should be super users.
>
>I have my own opinions on these matters and will share them in
>subsequent notes. But right now I need to know:
>
> How do we decide which of the various suggested opinions etc. gets
>codified into the implementations and policies?
>
>Ideally there should be one person responsible for setting the policies
>based on the informed input from the list who is willing to go to bat
>and explain rationales when stake holders with different opinions on
>this matter come forth.
>
>I volunteer to make such judgements and to implement what I think is
>best subject to Bob Ferrara overriding me with a "Thou Shalt!" directive.
>
>Can someone suggest a more reasonable approach?
>
>-wdc
