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Lazy Consensus
Revision as of 11:07, 15 September 2010 by Boris Bokowski.ca.ibm.com (Talk | contribs) (New page: Lazy Consensus is a useful technique to make decisions. When you don't anticipate any objections, for decisions of low impact or decisions that can be revised easily, you can post somethin...)
Lazy Consensus is a useful technique to make decisions. When you don't anticipate any objections, for decisions of low impact or decisions that can be revised easily, you can post something like the following on a mailing list (or some other communication channel):
"I am going to assume lazy consensus if there are no objections within the next three days."
You may want to wait longer (one week), and you should make it clear what the consensus decision will be if noone objects.
This technique is used in the Apache community, see [1].