On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 11:09:05AM -0600, Nicholas Solter wrote: > There's a bit of confusion in the HA Clusters community as to the voting > rules for project initiation. The project instantiation guidelines > (http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-instantiation.txt) > > say in section 3: > > Community Groups are encouraged to adopt their own policies for > discussing and approving Project proposals, including timeout periods. > Groups are advised that Article VIII of the OpenSolaris Constitution > provides substantial guidance in this area. > > However, the constitution in Article VIII, section 8.4, seems to dictate > exactly what kind of voting is used. Specifically, the table says that > consensus voting is used to initiate a new project. > > Is my reading of the constitution correct that we're required to use > consensus voting? Or is this only "guidance" (but not required) as > implied in the project instantiation policy doc?
I believe you are correct in saying that consensus is the required voting mechanism for project creation. However, there are other aspects of the process which the Instantiation Policy leaves to the Groups. For example, in setting timers for discussion before voting on the project. Also, the voting period itself is made flexible by 8.5. It's up to the Groups to decide what their criteria are for approving a project proposal - they can conduct a fairly rigorous initial review, or simply approve anything they broadly agree with. The intent of the PIP is to encourage local policymaking on these matters while directing Groups to the requirements and guidance found in Article VIII. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
