Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
People,
since Cocoon got approuved as a top level project, we have a PMC, but
the ASF is designed in such a way that each PMC can choose its own
rules and policies.
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Any opposive vote must contain a detailed description of the reasoning
that led to that vote and potentially indicate an alternative proposal
that he/she would favor.
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Requiring explanation of a negative vote is good. However, if the
explanation leads to an alternative proposal, that proposal should be
discussed separately, in order not to start a discussion within the vote
thread (SoC ?).
Keep in mind the purpose of this document. It is for PMC related
proposals and votes.
That means topics like changing the official PMC documentation (charter
and bylaws), or procedural changes (new mailing list, adding a CVS
repository, etc.).
It is not for general coding directions. The PMC is not responsible
for code, they are responsible for community.
99.9% of the time, the vote is merely academic because there was
sufficient discussion before the proposal was made a vote.
Usually there are only three reasons for -1 at this stage:
1) The voter is *really* against it for good reasons and his
advice was not heeded. This speaks to a community issue,
because his concerns should already have been addressed.
2) The proposer rushed the proposal through and did not allow
sufficient time for the community to comment on it. At that
time the community may vote -1 to bring it back to proposal
stage.
3) The voter is merely being obstenant. The community believes
that greater good will come because of the proposal, but the
voter is having a bad day, or doesn't like the proposer.
Again this is a community issue--and it is a very rare one
at that.
In all three cases it is a breakdown in communication that
causes the -1. Unfortunately I have seen all three of these
cases in recent history (not here). It is more "bureaucratic" than
alot of people like, but it has the purpose to make people think
carefully about actions that will have profound implications
on the community in general.
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