Hi everyone, we've now had a few cases where mails were sent to this list to get a general opinion whether * some change should be implemented * some feature is still needed * ...
While discussing this on a mailing list is nice, there are some disadvantages: * Threads are easily hijacked, and drift away from the original question * Bikeshedding about details. You know what I mean. * "Counting the votes" is a pain. * "+1" mails are certainly useful, but the number of bytes per bit of information is a bit high * and probably more. I would like to suggest and ask your opinion on a simple way of getting the developers' collective opinion: cast votes with a shell script on our favourite shell server, which is then displayed on a web page (either only as stats, or with name lists as now in the public list discussion). A typical choice of options would be restricted to "Yes, No, More discussion needed", a typical deadine 72h. So, a thread like "Should we enable useflag Z by default" would then include "Please discuss here, vote on ..." with a link to the count page (updated via cron every 1h). On login to ..., a message similar to the "open elections message" could be displayed. Obviously the implementation does not exist, but this is conceptually simple enough so it could be implemented within reasonable time. Opinions? (Yes / No / More discussion needed :D ) -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer [email protected] http://www.akhuettel.de/
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