As I said before, I'm +0 for mailing list as long as it's used as Guillaume described here.
Alex On 14.10.2011 11:33, Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > Hi, > > after thinking about it (and an IRL discussion with Vincent) here's my > updated point of view on this: > > - Have a private mailing list for committers > - If a committer feels that it's time for a contributor to become a > committer, he suggests her on the private mailing list > - Discussion on the private list ensues, committers decide whether the > contributor is ready or not > - If the contributor is not deemed ready, the process stops > - If the contributor is deemed ready, the proposer talks to her privately > and asks her whether she would be interested in becoming a committer > - If she's not interested, the process stops > - If she's interested, a public vote is launched on the devs mailing > list > > This way the vote is still public and non-committers can voice their > feedback, but there is a central location for the initial discussion > (instead of the proposer having to go and talk to every committer privately > on Skype, IRC and the like). We also keep the benefits of people standing > publicly by their votes. > > WDYT? > > Guillaume > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 4:18 AM, Jerome Velociter<[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I know Vincent retracted this vote for now, but just for the record >> and for the balance, I would definitely have +1'd. >> I support especially the point that it's tough to express reserves on >> someone's work publicly, even in an open world. And that in the end we >> might tend to just not do it when we should. >> >> Jerome >> >> On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Vincent Massol<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> There are a few topics that are not supposed to be public or that would >> be better be not public. >>> >>> One such topic is when we want to VOTE someone as a committer. It's very >> uncomfortable to do this in the open for the following reasons: >>> * committers are tempted to VOTE +1 since voting negatively is seen >> publicly, including by the person being voted on >>> * it's very undelicate to have this in the open especially if the person >> is voted down since that'll affect that person's morale and future >> participation in the project >>> >>> So I'd like to propose creating a [email protected] list with the >> following characteristics: >>> * private, visible only to committers >>> >>> I also propose it to use it for voting committers. >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jérôme Velociter >> Winesquare >> http://www.winesquare.net/ >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
