On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 04:00:46PM -0800, Sheng Yang wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to call for a vote for reverting back to the old mailing list > mechanism, which would add "Reply-To: mailing list" to every mail it > send out.
+1 (binding) Point of order question: I'd like to ask exactly which type of vote we believe we are holding here. Not to be the "rules guy", but isn't this a technical decision? If so, the bylaws we agreed to were that technical decisions are only put to a formal vote in circumstances where discussion was unable to achieve consensus. I guess that's what you believe has happened. That being said, we've basically started a vote that you could immediate close down. You've cast a -1 vote, and technical decisions are formally voted on using the lazy consensus (at least 3 +1 binding votes, and no binding -1 votes). Based on that, and the wording of this vote, the vote itself is procedurally meaningless. It's more useful as a continuation of the conversation thread. The more appropriate vote would be to assume that the questions were being raised, based on a technical change to the mailing list. Effectively, the state that we were in is the baseline (prior to the change), and several people have expressed opinions that are against that original technical decision. -chip
