On Sep 7, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Reizinger Zoltán <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> <snip> >> >>> Why you think the volunteers and admins will join to this list, if you >> not >>> makes any steps into the other directions? >>> >> >> I'm assuming the volunteers and admins want positive results. The >> decision-making in the project occurs on this list -- ooo-dev -- by >> participants making and discussing proposals. So I think that >> volunteers and admins should join and participate in this list so they >> can engage in an open, two-way conversation on how the project, >> including the support forums, are run. >> >> Remember, I am just one person, with my own ppinion. I have only one >> vote. I don't make the decisions myself. But if an admin or other >> forum volunteer is not participating on the ooo-dev list at all, then >> their opinions will likely be unheard and their vote uncounted. That >> is why you should encourage them to participate on the ooo-dev list. >> >> -Rob >> > > Honestly this seems like mailing lists are an awful way to take decision. > Someones votes will be swamped by the hundred of other emails comenting and > flamewaring making the vote completely disappeared. We need better software > to account this voiting, like a poll or something similar. > We need to consider two things, what people decide and their reasoning. So > mailing list is good to express opinion or responses. But is bad to account > how many people actually say I am forward this or I still havent make a > decision.
+1, they are when a few individuals dominate the conversation making it difficult for consensus to build or solutions to be defined. Instead we went round and round. I am getting the feeling that if someone ever puts together a concrete proposal that we are going to need to have a [VOTE], but probably not one where a single -1 is a veto. My opinion. Regards, Dave > > -- > *Alexandro Colorado* > *OpenOffice.org* Español > http://es.openoffice.org > fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6
