My perspective is that active contributors to the project should vote. How to define them is a more complicated issue and one of the things that prompted the long email chain in the PCS IIRC.
Michael ____________________ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science Arizona State University voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC) fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > On Jul 25, 2016, at 2:03 PM, Nikos Alexandris <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear Michael, > > thank you for this valuable insight, as it clearly comes out of great > experience. > > > Would we, however, consider active community members who use, work and > contribute time and expertise to document and demonstrate (in the Wiki > and elsewhere) GRASS-GIS, as project contributors? > > In the case of Veronica Andreo, I think no one disagrees that her work > and content contribution (in the Wiki for example) are useful and > exceptionally paradigmatic. And there are certainly many more active > members. > > In which case, wouldn't it be fair for such members to be eligible to vote? > > > In any case, it is not my intention to reactively cause yet another long > discussion. If there are no further discussions on this, especially from PSC > members, the process will carry on As Is. > > > If there are, however notions from current PSC members, for favouring, > somehow, Veronica Andreo's view, maybe we can at least offer option "ii" > (please, see my response to Veronica Andreo's e-mail), that is offer > voting right to community members who ask for it? It implies that such > members are active. Why else should someone ask for voting anyway? > > Thank you, Nikos > > > > * Michael Barton <[email protected]> [2016-07-25 19:45:04 +0000]: > >> I am concerned that there is a misunderstanding of how the project operates >> and what the PSC does here. In brief, it oversees the "project"--that is, >> the development and distribution of GRASS software. This project involves a >> community of developers who contribute time and expertise to create, >> maintain, and distribute GRASS software. Anyone can join this community, but >> it is not the same as the much larger group of people who use the software >> without contributing to the project. The PSC doesn't really have oversight >> over this much larger user community. I would be equally concerned if all >> the users of Apache software could decide on who should oversee the Apache >> project. My 2 cents. >> >> Michael >> ____________________ >> C. Michael Barton >> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity >> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change >> Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science >> Arizona State University >> >> voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC) >> fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) >> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > > > > > >> On Jul 25, 2016, at 10:53 AM, Markus Neteler >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> FYI! >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: "Veronica Andreo" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >> Date: Jul 25, 2016 7:26 PM >> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Comment regarding PSC election >> To: "grass-user" >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>, "grass-dev" >> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> >> Cc: >> >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> I just wanted to make a comment regarding the ongoing PSC election. >> >> I got to know how the whole process works only the past days and I must say >> I'm rather disappointed. I was happy to see that also users could vote as >> Nikos stated in his first email, but then that info was rectified. I read >> the emails of grass-psc discussing the matter and also the wiki. >> >> This is my personal opinion and no more than that, but I just think it is a >> bit unfair that for not having svn writing access I'm not able to vote. I >> don't understand how, as user, I'm entitled to nominate a person for PSC, >> but then, I cannot vote. I mean, there are several people with writing >> access that have remained inactive for a long time (no contributions to svn, >> no answering emails, no commenting on tickets or whatsoever), and IMHO, >> while not a developer, I've been pretty active the past 2-3 years. This is >> the first time I don't see/feel the community spirit that I've always >> praised GRASS for and that was one of the main reasons why I involved myself >> in it and spread the love for the project everywhere I went... and that's >> sad from my point of view. >> >> Anyway, sorry to bother with this (maybe) biased opinion/feeling, I just >> needed to express it. Perhaps in the future, voting could be optional for >> users, dunno... >> >> Thanks so much to all of you for making GRASS GIS the great software it is :) >> >> Best, >> Vero _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc
