On Jul 12, 2009, at 7:28 PM, Kevan Miller wrote:
On Jul 12, 2009, at 8:29 PM, David Blevins wrote:
Q. Voting on people: Is it hard to vote -1 in public / Can someone
get their feelings hurt ?
Yes and yes. Voting in public requires greater care and
sensitivity on behalf of everyone; the vote proposer, the voters,
and the votee. Prior to voting the proposer should create several
opportunities for feedback, hopefully positive and constructive.
Community members with concerns should get involved early and
actively mentor potential committers, taking opportunities for
feedback as queues to get involved, encourage, and work through
areas where they see said person needs more help. The contributor
should actively solicit and welcome all help and feedback and
encouragement and feel welcome to give it in return. Do not rush;
all parties (proposer, voters, and votee) have work to do in
grooming contributors, etc., and that work takes time. Votes that
result in one or more -1s should not be seen as a failure of any
one individual and instead be seen as an opportunity for all
parties (proposer, voters, and votee) to make improvements, be more
active, and give the process more time.
Ok, so I *think* that's all the open topics. If it isn't missing
anything major and generally captures the ideas of the group, I'll
throw it into the wiki and people can go in and make any wording
tweaks they like as well as any other cleanup. I'll give it a
while for lazy consensus before doing so.
One final note -- all community members should be encouraged to
provide legal oversight for a project, not just PMC members. Only
difference is that it is *expected* from PMC members.
+1000 ;-) great point!
Jeff
--kevan
