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Hi everyone, |
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we've now had a few cases where mails were sent to this list to get a general |
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opinion whether |
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* some change should be implemented |
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* some feature is still needed |
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* ... |
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While discussing this on a mailing list is nice, there are some disadvantages: |
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* Threads are easily hijacked, and drift away from the original question |
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* Bikeshedding about details. You know what I mean. |
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* "Counting the votes" is a pain. |
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* "+1" mails are certainly useful, but the number of bytes per bit of |
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information is a bit high |
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* and probably more. |
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I would like to suggest and ask your opinion on a simple way of getting the |
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developers' collective opinion: cast votes with a shell script on our |
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favourite shell server, which is then displayed on a web page (either only as |
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stats, or with name lists as now in the public list discussion). |
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A typical choice of options would be restricted to "Yes, No, More discussion |
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needed", a typical deadine 72h. |
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So, a thread like "Should we enable useflag Z by default" would then include |
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"Please discuss here, vote on ..." with a link to the count page (updated via |
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cron every 1h). On login to ..., a message similar to the "open elections |
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message" could be displayed. |
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Obviously the implementation does not exist, but this is conceptually simple |
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enough so it could be implemented within reasonable time. |
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Opinions? |
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(Yes / No / More discussion needed :D ) |
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-- |
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Andreas K. Huettel |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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http://www.akhuettel.de/ |
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