Hi Nyall
Having another process to nominate QEP voters sounds too complicated to me.
>not everyone on the psc is a developer or has c++ coding experience
There is a mix of coders and non-coders in the PSC on purpose.
Developers sometimes have a narrow point of view, so it is good that
also non-developers have a say. In the discussion part of the QEP, the
consequences for users can be mentioned. I don't consider that a
problem, even for very technical subjects (and even those usually have
somehow an influence on the users of a software).
I'm putting RFC/QEP on the agenda to discuss at the next PSC meeting
(http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/PSC_Meeting_5_September_2014).
Regards,
Marco
On 23.08.2014 03:31, Nyall Dawson wrote:
On 23/08/2014 3:33 am, "Even Rouault" <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Le vendredi 22 août 2014 17:19:34, Marco Hugentobler a écrit :
> > - Who can vote?
> > PSC only (GDAL) / committers
>
> With GIT, 'committers' can be anyone. You probably meant folks who
have push
> rights in official repo ? If you give them voting rights, and
potentially veto
> right (not sure how the rules of the voting system of QGIS are),
then they are
> defacto PSC members, since they can steer the direction of the
project. Not
> saying this is bad. Just a consequence.
>
I'd say neither psc nor commit rights are a good fit. While I agree
that the psc should definitely have a say, not everyone on the psc is
a developer or has c++ coding experience. Similarly, we have people
who have commit rights who are neither developers nor psc members.
Since a big part of the qep would be commenting on proposed technical
architecture, I think its fairly important that developers have a good
say in the process. But conversely if the qep process determines the
direction of QGIS, then non devs on the psc should also have a say.
So, I'd say we need a new group for voters. We could have a process like:
- a candidate is nominated & seconded (possibly by psc members only?)
- the candidate gives a short reasoning on why they'd like to be part
of the group and what skills they have
- after receiving a set number of votes the candidate is accepted into
the group. (Again, possibly only the psc could vote on candidates?).
Nyall
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