On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 09:17, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 08:15:48 -0400 Mike Blumenkrantz
> <[email protected]> said:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > We've just completed our first round of voting (
> > https://phab.enlightenment.org/T7283). The process was a success overall,
>
> what on earth.... a success overall? how can you claim this? 2 polls. 1 had 
> one
> vote, one had 2 votes. in total 3 votes. they don't allow multiple choices. 
> the
> voting against was confusing to 50% of the people voting... and tbh i voted
> only for the lease bad option because i disliked them all...

I agree the voting was a bit weird.
And I think there should only be a vote against a proposal if a
consensus cannot be reached.
People could just comment on the proposal task there if they are against it.
I only see a need for voting if one wants to know what other
developers would like to have the most for the next release.

> > Q: Why proposals?
> > A: Previously, EFL releases were like a giant pile of unrelated and
> > uncoordinated work. There was no oversight and nobody knew what anyone else
> > was doing. This methodology provides solutions to these issues and allows
> > for a framework within which contributors can work cooperatively on
> > features for each release.
>
> yet the community was happy and functioned. we got along like friends. had our
> arguments and spats but functioned.

I think that is where most people would argue that it is/was not functioning.
Maybe it was before, but it looks like it isn't anymore...

> i for one will happily approve any patches/work that is of value and has been
> done well that is brought to my attention. proposal or not (if it's a patch
> submitted). if someone wanted to add something they needed or wanted and it 
> was
> not proposed - more power to them. they are enjoying themselves doing what 
> they
> wanted.

if someone wants to add something that was not proposed, it is fine!
Just communicate about it... they can say "hey I am working on this,
what do you think" that is just more communication right? I think this
is what proposals are for.
But like I said before I don't see why there should be a voting
session against the proposals. There should be good reasons to be
against a proposal first. voting seems too arbitrary.

> a todo list for people to pick from if they are short on ideas or see things
> there they'd prefer to work on is what is useful. this bureaucracy is not. i 
> am
> seriously disliking where you want to push things and consider this a big push
> back.

I think it is more or less what we agreed before in irc meetings,
isn't it? maybe I've missed some.
If you have a big feature that will change efl it seems normal to have
a task (proposal) to discuss about it. (and small features do not need
proposals)
For example if there had been a proposal for the gadgets you could
have said from the start you were against it (maybe you did and I
missed it) instead of when it landed.
Because they did what you described exactly, they worked on something
they wanted and merged it.

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