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  • From: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] project organization
  • Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:36:54 -0500

On Apr 17, Robin Cook [rcook AT wyrms.net] wrote:
> I have no problem with most of it except having no binding vote in the
> issues voting if not a lead developer.

This is the way it is today (no one gets a binding vote in non-lead
elections except for the leads) and is typical of most representative-type
political systems. ie, depending on where you live you typically elect
your representative and then they go off and vote on your behalf. If they
do a good job you keep electing them, if not you throw them out.

> CuZnDragon
> Robin Cook
>
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 16:59 -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > On Apr 17, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
> > > - there would be a process for the general developer population to veto
> > > anything the leads decided
> >
> > Blah, that's not entirely correct. The proposal identifies a way for the
> > general developers to veto all aspects of who is leading things and any
> > votes by the leads that would modify how the voting policy and project
> > organization itself works. There's no provision to veto other day-to-day
> > issue votes directly, but being able to veto who is doing the voting
> > accomplishes the same thing over time.

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