Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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.) > I thought my example was pretty clear when I said binding vote. (Which is how the constitution describes a vote by a core contributor)
Example -5 binding vote -3 non-binding votes +50 non-binding votes ------------------------- 58 votes total You answered my other question though. Thanks ./C _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
