On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Looking at the dev work that remains, I think we need to move forward >> on this with deliberate speed. This impacts both the branding on our >> 3.4 release, as well as the branding on our web sites, both of which >> are making strong progress. >> >> I think there are two main elements we need to decide on: >> >> 1) Product name: Apache OpenOffice, Apache OpenOffice.org or something >> else >> >> 2) Logo, for use on website, product splash screen etc. >> >> I propose that we discuss these topics on the ooo-marketing for two >> weeks, until November 14th. If there is consensus on these questions >> then we will go forward to implement that consensus. But if there is >> no consensus by the 14th, then we will have a 72-hour vote of PPMC >> members to decide among the alternatives. >> >> Of course, it is better to reach consensus on such questions, but a >> product name is not optional, so we need to resolve these questions >> one way or another. >> >> Any objections to this general approach and time frame? >> >> -Rob >> > > My largest issue is basically the way is being handled this voting, usually > it seems that is not as easily traceable as a poll. Mailing list can easily > bury vote by just having chatty people or flamewars. > I rather see the forum as a more dynamic way to reach consensus like they > do with a voting poll separate from the overall discussion why is a good > idea or not. Also I would miss the ability to change the voting in case the > voter realize that he has a change of heart. I do like the timeline. > So I would propose a decision making framework to account vote, change > votes, and easily browse/review overall group decisions. >
The way an Apache project typically does this is via separate [DISCUSSION] and [VOTE] threads. So it would be clear which is which. And in the [VOTE] thread we would only count the last vote a person makes, so they can change their vote freely. But I would only have a [VOTE] if after 2 weeks there was still no consensus. Would that work? -Rob > -- > *Alexandro Colorado* > *OpenOffice.org* Español > http://es.openoffice.org > fingerprint: E62B CF77 1BEA 0749 C0B8 50B9 3DE6 A84A 68D0 72E6 >
