[HCoop-Discuss] Volunteer response times

[Graham Freeman]

On 26 Mar 07, at 21:09, Adam Chlipala wrote:

> We seem to have agreed to change the time period to 48 hours, but that
> doesn't change things much.


On the contrary, 48 hours (assuming this excludes holidays and  
weekends) is much more palatable.   :)


> It's important to understand that no one is required to do anything  
> but
> respond to e-mails addressed to him personally within that time  
> period.
> If something is broken and that person is asked to fix it, we have not
> codified any responsibility on his part to do so... EVER.  We only ask
> that he respond to the e-mail, so that everyone else can have some  
> idea
> of what's going on.  A valid response is "I'm busy this week.  I'll do
> it on <specific date>."
>
> I can't, as president, organize people who can't commit to doing that
> within 48 hours.  If that rules some people out from volunteering,  
> then
> that's too bad, but I don't think there's any alternative.  We need to
> be able to predict some element of the timing of communication.


That's reasonable.

Graham