[ via Planet Debian ] Manoj Srivasta describes the decline of consensus in the Debian project. It's interesting to me that he describes some structural contributions to this problem (the constitution and the general resolution process). The solution he proposes is for people to remember who they are and why they are there, which I think is important. But I'm not sure how effective that can be if there a structural problems. Good structure can't guarantee that good things will happen, but bad structure will definitely prevent good things from happening and often causes bad things to happen. As more and more open source projects get larger and become organizations, the issue of structure is something that we are going to have to face.