Public SourceMage Discussion List

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Apr 17, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) [jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org] wrote:
> > That's the summary of this proposal, and I think it's accurate.  The full
> > docs are attached.
>
> A couple of things have come up in discussion:
>
> - A fatal flaw, if we have eg 23 developers and 20 of them are leads and 3
>  of them are not, 2 of the 3 non-leads have all the veto power.  To fix
>  this, I'm amending the proposal to allow leads to vote in vetos.  The
>  intent of the veto is to allow a super majority of the full project to
>  overrule the leads, so I think this is appropriate.

While this would mean that if general developers are in the minority
they won't get to dictate decisions for the majority, doesn't it
remove the general developers' veto power by adding the Lead votes
(whom have presumably already voted in a way that the general
developers did not want)?

Perhaps adding a clause that veto votes require at least 51% of the
total number of developers (lead + general) to be valid, though this
means that if the general developers are at all in the minority no
vetos would ever pass, which is almost the same issue as above.

> - Removal Votes require a super majority to pass.  This is so that Leads
>  can't just easily throw out a new elected Lead they don't like that the
>  General Developers have elected.  However, it means that if someone comes
>  up for a removal vote through inactivity, it would still take a super
>  majority to confirm their removal.  To fix this I'm amending the proposal
>  so that the automated removal votes *pass* unless a simple majority votes
>  opposed to them.

Sounds good.

Thanks!

- -sandalle

- --
Eric Sandall                     |  Source Mage GNU/Linux Developer
eric AT sandall.us                  |  http://www.sourcemage.org/
http://eric.sandall.us/          |  SysAdmin @ Inst. Shock Physics @ WSU
http://counter.li.org/  #196285  |  http://www.shock.wsu.edu/
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFERRltHXt9dKjv3WERAkl6AJ41tx6Z0+IYIW9qE0JhBzW5c2AcTgCePart
FQ5c+5hKe6K+ViSIqwS+2os=
=Ynul
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----