On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 11:49 +0300, Evgeny Egorochkin wrote: > This is taken from > https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/wiki/OntologyMaintenance > > "== Decision-making Process == > > Proposals by Evgeny Egorochkin: > * Consensus-based for important issues. > * Majority vote doesn't suit us because 51% approval is just a good excuse > to sweep under the rug a fundamental rift in the community. > * Ideas should be judged on merit based on a shared vision of the > participants. > * It's really hard to decide who has a voting power in a highly dynamic and > distributed community like ours. > * Minor issues may be up for voting if no consensus is found to avoid the > project getting stuck and move on to something more important. > * Ontology maintainers are responsible for ensuring decision meet consensus > criteria. This means either: > * Waiting long enough for all parties involved to either comment or ignore > the issue(considered an abstention). > * Contacting affected parties to obtain either their comment, confirm > abstention or to set a deadline for them to express their opinion. > As a consequence of being responsible, commits to the repository need a > maintainer approval. > * No ticket - no commit policy. This is important to document our decisions. > Every change must be discussed in the issue tracker before being committed. > Every comment of parties affected by the decision must be added to the ticket > regardless of the way the comment was communicated. The exception to this > policy is minor technical defects such as typos, formatting. > " > > I'd like to know if I can remove "Proposals by Evgeny Egorochkin:" from this > section of the page. That is, please vote or comment ;)
Ok for me -- Philip Van Hoof, freelance software developer home: me at pvanhoof dot be gnome: pvanhoof at gnome dot org http://pvanhoof.be/blog http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
