C. Bergström wrote:
> I have some questions in regards to a few things..
As Danek suggests, this seems like questions for ogb-discuss, not pkg-discuss
or indiana-discuss (or is this a prelude to asking for some sort of vote in
one of those two projects?). I've cc'ed ogb-discuss and set reply-to there
as well.
> 1) Before an important technical decision affecting the OpenSolaris
> community and possibly Sun should there be any sort of vote, peer
> review, evaluation.. or anything?
Depends on the decision - most important technical decisions will go through
code review at the minimum, design review for larger changes, ARC review for
changes that affect interfaces with other code/projects/users, etc.
> 2) When a technical decision was made which needs a 2nd look. How is
> the voting/review process started and is it possible for someone in the
> community to initiate this?
There is no defined formal process that I'm aware of here - just sending mail
to the appropriate list asking for clarification or explaining why you disagree
and holding a conversation is the best I can suggest as a first step. Voting
is the fallback when consensus can't be reached via conversation.
> 3) After looking at [1] I'm not sure non-binding vs binding votes will
> be counted. For example.. If 5 Sun employees who are binding votes
> disagree and vote -1 and 50 people from the community vote +50 and -3
> what would the result be?
OpenSolaris voting procedures have no distinction between the votes of those
employed by Sun vs. those who are not - only between those the community has
designated as core contributors to a community group and those who are not.
Thus in your example, it's impossible to know the outcome without knowing
whether the voters are core contributors or not - the vast majority of Sun
employees are not, and their votes would not be counted, while quite a number
of non-Sun employees are core contributors and their votes would be counted.
(Your example also doesn't add up - each voter gets either a +1 or -1, so
the votes of 50 people can't be +50 and -3, since that would be 53 people's
votes.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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