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On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Alec Warner <antarus@g.o> wrote: |
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> Would you change GLEP 39 here and get a vote of the developer-base to change |
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> the metastructure? |
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IMO if we ever do get around to figuring out what the contributors to |
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Gentoo actually want, we should probably give them more than a yes/no |
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option. We use condorcet voting - it costs us nothing to give people |
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as many options as people care to define, because there is no |
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strategic voting advantage to diluting options with condorcet as long |
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as the ballot doesn't get so long that people can't even rank it. |
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I'd suggest doing that BEFORE spending a ton of effort refining |
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things. Maybe ask people where they want things to go in a |
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non-binding way, at at least look at the top few candidates. |
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Then go ahead and refine the proposed path forward (hopefully with |
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both Council/Trustee backing, but if they want to propose separate |
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options they could), and then put that up for a binding vote. |
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If we think this is a good idea I'd suggest that we just let people |
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write up proposals on the wiki (anybody can write one or more |
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proposals as long as at least one dev or foundation member backs it - |
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if there is abuse then limit to one each), then these get copied to |
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locked-down pages prior to voting, and each proposal is assigned a |
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unique ID for the ballot. Voting starts, people can discuss or try to |
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sway votes on the lists, and then we get the ranked tally. This would |
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be non-binding and could be used by Council/Trustees/others as useful |
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feedback so that at least we're not all waving our hands in the air |
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about what "everybody" wants. |
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We would still have to settle who gets to vote. IMO it should just be |
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devs, but honestly the number of non-dev Foundation members isn't that |
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large at present and it probably wouldn't change the outcome (keeping |
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things this way is important, because if we ever do end up in a |
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situation where the two bodies want to go in different directions we |
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have an even bigger mess). |
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