My issue with voting systems is the lack of transparency. Someone could submit something for a vote and we never see it as most of us dont have XDG website as our browser homepage. The only way to get everyones attention is via email. And if you suggest making a vote then submitting that vote to an emailing list, youre essentially accomplishing nothing. Maybe we need some sort of etiquette for the mailing list when it comes to making group decisions on points? Its not hard or time consuming to spin off an email saying "+1 from me" to certain points in a spec discussion on the mailing list. It shows a quick agreement to a point rather than silence. Remember, we cant read you nodding at your screen while reading spec submissions :)
-Toma 2009/6/6 Havoc Pennington <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > Decisions aren't really made on the list. The real voting mechanism is > code. All the interoperability specs or shared libraries that have > some adoption exist because there was interest in implementing more > than one implementation. Sometimes one person went around implementing > more than once in various desktops, sometimes two or three people > decided to each do an implementation. But in the end you only need two > or three people to agree with you enough to do some coding. There's > not a need to convince an entire mailing list. The mailing list is > just a place for discussion. +1 from me! :D > > The people who agree with you do have to include maintainers of any > relevant code modules, of course, but usually that's just a couple of > people. > > Havoc > _______________________________________________ > xdg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg > _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
