On 6/19/2020 7:06 PM, Reuben Staley via agora-discussion wrote: > On 2020-06-19 19:44, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion wrote: >> I think we need a free way of pending patch proposals. The voters appear to >> agree with me. I know some prominent and respected voices disagree, but the >> proposal passed, so clearly public sentiment presently favors something >> along these lines. >> >> However, the mechanism I proposed might have been messy. There are >> alternative ideas that would cause fewer CFJs. This gets a bit logistically >> interesting though because it's preferable for any such mechanism to be a) >> fast, and b) discourage abuse. Unfortunately, those things go against each >> other. This is why I suggested a criminal mechanism, which punishes abuse >> after the fact. The obvious alternative is a dependent action. 2 Agoran >> Consent works pretty well as a cure to abuse of anything. It also takes 4 >> days, which is too long for patches IMO. That leaves with N support. The >> problem with actions taken with N support is that you've gotta pick a value >> of N that is high enough to stop a cabal of taking advantage of it and low >> enough to be easily achievable. That being said, something like with 5 >> support backed by a SHOULD might do it. >> >> A final solution, which I'm tossing in mostly as a joke, would be to just >> take the once a week limitation off my emergency pending powers. >> >> Or, of course, we could just repeal it. A repeal does remove the problem, >> though at the cost of also removing a mechanism that we've collectively >> agreed is a good idea. >> >> Thoughts? > > I think it's good to have free patch proposals, but I don't really like > the huge penalty of the current version. I feel like a much more > balanced system would be a simple dependent action thing. Like someone > can make their proposal a patch with some support or without some > objections or both. There don't have to be restrictions on what patch > proposals are about as long as people agree that it's meant to fix > something. Maybe we can even exempt patch proposals from popularity and > rewards to make sure they're truly for the public good.
I would say w/o 3 objections at a guess. The 4-day waiting time, during which people are reading it with an eye to objection, is a great way to catch bugs in any bugfix.
