On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Chip Childers <chip.child...@sungard.com> wrote: > 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.
Theoretically I don't think it's a technical decision. It's related to mailing list itself, and way people use it, not CloudStack. And it would involve the community as whole. Do you agree? --Sheng > > 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
