On Jul 30, 2014 7:20 AM, "Benoit Chesneau" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Jul 28, 2014 4:55 PM, "Noah Slater" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > Hello folks,
> >
> > In a discussion between myself, Joan, and Bob on IRC today, it became
> > clear that there are some major errors that need fixing ASAP.
> >
> > Here's my candidate doc that we are voting on:
> >
> >
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=44302814
> >
> > This vote uses majority approval model and expires in 72 hours.
> >
> > Please review and cast your vote.
> >
> > The page history is messy, but here is a list of the changes I made,
> > in order of importance. The last half are a wrap-up of all the
> > outstanding errata.
> >
> > - Dropped "majority approval" approval model, as this allowed blocking
> > -1 votes on non-technical decisions. Confirmed with other major
> > contributors to the bylaws that this did not match our intentions
> >
> > - Updated decision table to use "lazy majority" or "lazy 2/3 majority"
> > instead of "majority approval" as necessary
> >
> > - Clarified that "veto" only applies to -1 votes using RTC
> >
> > - Change our most preferred method of decision making to "Lazy
> > consensus or RTC" per Bob's feedback that we actually have two primary
> > decision making models, one for code and one for everything else
> >
> > - Dropped a redundant sentence about the Chair not being a leader
> >
> > - Changed "RTC Approval & Vetos" to "RTC and Vetos" so anchors work
> >
> > - Fixed internal anchors, and added a few additional ones
> >
> > - Added example about using email TAGS
> >
> > - Tightened up wording about the PMC delegating responsibility
> >
> > - Minor fixes for wording and case
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > --
> > Noah Slater
> > https://twitter.com/nslater
>
> why this 2/3 rule? what is the reason to not have simple "majority" ?
>

hrm since discussing in a vote is already too late, I'm actually -1 on that
change. I think the 2/3 lazy thing can be harmful and will makes the
project more easy to be manipulated for the good or not. I don't see any
reason indeed for this 2/3 except introducing more politic than it's needed.

> - benoit

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