Re: Is strategic voting a problem? - was RE: Don't disclose election results

On Jun 6, 2014, at 8:42 , Yosuke Funahashi <yosuke@funahashi.cc> wrote:

> This is one of the reasons why I wrote a message that we should make the AB open. Some people sounded comfortable with keeping the AB small or current size, which I don't understand at all.

I think in general, once over a minimum size, the efficacy of a committee (and I mean committee, not working group etc.) is inversely proportional to size. For example, for classic boards, I think once you are over about a dozen, efficacy drops sharply.  There are many factors at play: it takes longer to listen to everyone (and one has to, even if people repeat things already said), and in a large group everyone feels it�s large enough that they don�t have to step up and be particularly active, and so on.

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Friday, 6 June 2014 20:32:30 UTC