Yes your logic is flawed- what you are actually arguing for is majority voting not consensus voting, and bringing the criterion down from 100% to 75% only helps mitigate your concerns.
As Doug points out, votes are structured away from the status quo- we don't ever vote to continue on with previously agreed to issues just to circumvent the voting process. >________________________________ > From: ant elder <ant.el...@gmail.com> >To: general@incubator.apache.org >Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 12:29 PM >Subject: Re: Vote on personal matters: majority vote vs consensus > >On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Joseph Schaefer <joe_schae...@yahoo.com> >wrote: >> No more so than they already had. >> > >It does Joe, let me give you a more clear example. > >Lets imagine i've done something that you deem shows i'm a terrible >incubator mentor, and its not the first time. > >There's a big debate within the PMC, no clear consensus, so in the end >you say enough is enough and call a vote to remove me so i don't do >any more damage - a vote on removing ant. > >With this new supermajority approach you'd need 75% or more of voters >to agree with you to get me gone. > >Alternatively, you could say enough is enough and to end the debate >you're going to call a vote to demonstrate i've the PMCs support - a >vote on letting ant stay on. That sounds like you're being nice, but >in fact you're being clever, because now you only need 25% of voters >to vote -1 and i'm gone. > >25% is much easier to get than the 75% in the previous vote example. > >The problem here i think is that the policy is being rushed through >and people are only thinking of the voting people to the PMC case >whereas the policy is going to apply much more widely that - to all >votes on personal matters - so lots of scope for wording bias. > >Isn't this the case? Apologies in advance for the noise if my logic is >screwed up somewhere. > > ...ant > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org > > > >
