Re: veto?

2014-11-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Peter Samuelson: Do you mean, perhaps, that the Further Discussion option in a GR should be weighted much more heavily than other options, so that it can beat another option if only a few people rank it higher? I am not in favor of that. You can't give any one option more weight in a

Re: veto?

2014-11-15 Thread Daniel Pocock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/11/14 11:52, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Peter Samuelson: Do you mean, perhaps, that the Further Discussion option in a GR should be weighted much more heavily than other options, so that it can beat another option if only a few

Re: veto?

2014-11-14 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Daniel Pocock] Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people leaving outright? That sounds like a pretty good description of either a GR, or the Technical Committee. We have both

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Pocock said: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Stephen Gran: This one time, at band camp, Daniel Pocock said: Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? I veto this idea. I agree. If you want to block a change, convince the rest of us that it's a bad

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Donnerstag, 13. November 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I veto this idea. I agree. I don't. I veto the idea that this idea is dead, I think we should discuss it some more. cheers, Holger, who might have forgotten to indicate sarcasm... signature.asc Description

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 13/11/14 13:16, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Donnerstag, 13. November 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I veto this idea. I agree. I don't. I veto the idea that this idea is dead, I think we should discuss it some more. If veto is dead, what would the FTP masters do when somebody decides

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Daniel Pocock: If veto is dead, what would the FTP masters do when somebody decides to upload something before checking it is 100% free? That's a different sort of veto. That's what they do, and they've got a mandate to do exactly that. The veto we're talking about here is more along

Re: veto the veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 13/11/14 15:25, Matthias Urlichs wrote: Hi, Daniel Pocock: If veto is dead, what would the FTP masters do when somebody decides to upload something before checking it is 100% free? That's a different sort of veto. That's what they do, and they've got a mandate to do exactly

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:41:33PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 12/11/14 13:12, zlatan wrote: Please no. We need less and not more layers of governance/'political' complexity in project. Lets stop acting like government and more like community. If a veto facility is created

Re: veto?

2014-11-13 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 11/13/2014 05:03 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: On 13/11/14 13:16, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Donnerstag, 13. November 2014, Matthias Urlichs wrote: I veto this idea. I agree. I don't. I veto the idea that this idea is dead, I think we should discuss it some more. If veto is dead, what

veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people leaving outright? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:04:05 +0100 Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.pro wrote: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Daniel Pocock dan...@pocock.pro, 2014-11-12, 11:04: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:04:05AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people leaving outright? Can you elaborate which decisions and how many DDs could veto them? I didn't want to be too specific, to give other people a chance to make suggestions However, one possibility is that anybody maintaining

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Gary
On 12/11/14 10:04, Daniel Pocock wrote: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread zlatan
: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people leaving outright? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
On 12/11/14 13:12, zlatan wrote: Please no. We need less and not more layers of governance/'political' complexity in project. Lets stop acting like government and more like community. If a veto facility is created effectively, then it will deter people from complexity and force people back

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Daniel, aint the GR process exactly that, a way to say veto? Compare the current vote... cheers, Holger signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:41:33PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: Please no. We need less and not more layers of governance/'political' complexity in project. Lets stop acting like government and more like community. If a veto facility is created effectively, then it will deter people from

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Thomas Goirand
another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people leaving outright? Can you elaborate which decisions and how many DDs could veto them? I didn't want to be too specific, to give other people a chance to make suggestions

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people leaving outright? Can you elaborate which decisions and how many DDs could veto them? I didn't want to be too specific, to give other

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Philip Hands
that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people leaving outright? Can you elaborate which decisions and how many DDs could veto them? I

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
:05AM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than people

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 06:44:50PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: You're expecting people proposing GRs to be receptive to rational argument. I fear you've not been paying close attention recently. Well done. I congratulate you on your wisdom. If rational argument is not necessary, then

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On 11/12/2014 02:04 AM, Daniel Pocock wrote: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread koanhead
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:20:01 +0100, zlatan wrote: We need less and not more layers of governance/'political' complexity in project. Lets stop acting like government and more like community. When you have a small number of people involved in a 'community' then you can get by with little

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 12 Nov 2014, Daniel Pocock wrote: It is very sad to see that contributors sometimes feel that the only option for them is to resign. Would it be worthwhile giving people another option, for example, allowing a percentage of DDs to formally veto decisions? Would this be better than

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Andreas Barth
* Daniel Pocock (dan...@pocock.pro) [141112 13:42]: On 12/11/14 13:12, zlatan wrote: Please no. We need less and not more layers of governance/'political' complexity in project. Lets stop acting like government and more like community. If a veto facility is created effectively

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Andrey Rahmatullin w...@debian.org writes: On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 01:41:33PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: If a veto facility is created effectively, then it will deter people from complexity and force people back to looking for consensus Or we could fix the TC instead. It would be lovely

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Daniel Pocock dijo [Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:08:23PM +0100]: I didn't want to be too specific, to give other people a chance to make suggestions However, one possibility is that anybody maintaining an essential package and anybody who is a DPL delegate would be able to veto. The implication

Re: veto?

2014-11-12 Thread Daniel Pocock
would be able to veto. The implication is that somebody can still win a GR against the veto, but they do so knowing that they will have to find somebody else to maintain some essential packages. As a DPL delegate, I'd strongly veto that idea. That clearly creates first- and second-class citizens

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Seg, 2005-08-22 às 10:07 -0500, Manoj Srivastava escreveu: On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:29:51 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The constitution states that no developer can have democratic control imposed on them at all. Indeed, I reject any such control over

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Gustavo Noronha Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The constitution also states that no developer can work actively against the implementation of such a decision made by the project[0]. Not doing the work and not letting anyone else do it would constitute 'working actively againt'. Quite the

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Thomas Bushnell] Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting others from doing the work is working actively against it. If you do both, you are working actively against it. --

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Thomas Bushnell] Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting others from doing the work is working actively against it. If you do

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-23 Thread Emanuele Rocca
Hello David, * David Nusinow [EMAIL PROTECTED], [2005-08-21 19:44 -0400]: On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:29:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Wouter Verhelst] b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work.

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em Ter, 2005-08-23 às 09:54 -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG escreveu: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Thomas Bushnell] Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-23 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Thomas Bushnell] Quite the contrary; it seems to me that this is to work *passively* against something. Not doing the work is working passively against it, while prohibiting others from doing the

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway?

2005-08-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:29:51 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [Wouter Verhelst] b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work. This is not really a valid argument. If a team in debian refuses to accept

Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-21 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Wouter Verhelst] b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work. This is not really a valid argument. If a team in debian refuses to accept decisions made by a majority of debian developers, or rejects democratic control,

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-21 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:29:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Wouter Verhelst] b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work. This is not really a valid argument. If a team in debian refuses to accept

Re: Team have veto rights, because they can just refuse the work anyway? (Was: Results of the meeting in Helsinki about the Vancouver proposal)

2005-08-21 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:29:51PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Wouter Verhelst] b) the three beforementioned teams could already refuse to support a port anyhow, simply by not doing the work. This is not really a valid argument. If a team in debian refuses to accept