On 01/28/2015 11:36 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote: > Monty Taylor wrote: >> What if, to reduce stress on you, we make this 100% mechanical: >> >> - Anyone can propose a name >> - Election officials verify that the name matches the criteria >> - * note: how do we approve additive exceptions without tons of effort > > Devil is in the details, as reading some of my hatemail would tell you. > For example in the past I rejected "Foo" which was proposed because > there was a "Foo Bar" landmark in the vicinity. The rules would have to > be pretty detailed to be entirely objective. Naming isn't objective. That is both the value and the hardship. > >> - Marketing team provides feedback to the election officials on names >> they find image-wise problematic >> - The poll is created with the roster of all foundation members >> containing all of the choices, but with the marketing issues clearly >> labeled, like this: >> >> * Love >> * Lumber Ohh, it gives me a thrill to see a name that means something even remotely Canadian. (not advocating it be added to this round) >> * Lettuce >> * Lemming - marketing issues identified >> >> - post poll - foundation staff run trademarks checks on the winners in >> order until a legally acceptable winner is found >> >> This way nobody is excluded, it's not a burden on you, it's about as >> transparent as it could be - and there are no special privileges needed >> for anyone to volunteer to be an election official. >> >> I'm going to continue to advocate that we use condorcet instead of a >> launchpad poll because we need the ability to rank things for post-vote >> trademark checks to not get weird. (also, we're working on getting off >> of launchpad, so let's not re-add another connection) > > It's been some time since we last used a Launchpad poll. I recently used > an open surveymonkey poll, which allowed crude ranking. Agree that > Condorcet is better, as long as you can determine a clear list of voters. >
Glad we are talking about this, Anita. __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev