How does the Discourse project work?

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

Closing this for now, its had enough discussion and its eating up precious dev time. See @mcwumbly answer for a canonical answer on the OP

How does the Discourse project work?

Allow me to briefly summarize, since I re-ignited this discussion 4 days ago: Many decisions are made within the team, based on observations and feedback across 100+ instances and their meta categories. Priorities are set according to the principles outlined in Jeff’s post above about complaint driven development. Many of these decisions may be made here on meta out in the open. If Jeff needs to make a decision when consensus cannot be reached in a timely manner, he does so. Small cha…