There's nothing wrong with the practice except that a vote thread with
comments means that we probably shouldn't proceed and should discuss it
more. Too much discussion on vote thread means we don't have any sort of
consensus and should work that out first.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015, 12:52 PM Andrew
The vote itself should only be a formality really -- all issues should
have been hashed out in the Discuss thread. I think it's just a matter
of people getting used to this.
Vote threads full of discussion defeats the purpose of it. 1 or 2
off-topic items are okay now, but it can get de-railed
I don't view discussion as a vote blocker, and I am against anything that
delays shipping. I also think adding time based on comments is treating the
symptom ( uninformed + under-engaged ) when the problem was really perhaps
that the discuss conversation didn't go far enough.
We should definitely
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From: agri...@google.com [mailto:agri...@google.com] On Behalf Of Andrew Grieve
Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2015 1:01 PM
To: dev
Subject: Re: Discussions on vote threads
That's a good point. Perhaps we should update our template to say minium
or 48 hours, and at least 24 hours after the last
That's a good point. Perhaps we should update our template to say minium
or 48 hours, and at least 24 hours after the last non-vote comment
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Joe Bowser bows...@gmail.com wrote:
There's nothing wrong with the practice except that a vote thread with
comments means
Have become very common for us. Probably because the release VOTE is the
thing that actually gets people motivated to take a good look.
Thought it'd be good for us to discuss this practice.
My thoughts:
- I think it still makes sense to DISCUSS before starting a release
- I think it's perfectly
