Hi, On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Toma<[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
There are numerous ways. Feed syndication is used by many people these days. If we could implement a gateway between the mailing list and a public forum, it would be a good idea and make things more transparent. > 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. - 1 Not every developer effected by discussions and decisions made here is on this list. People could follow on different channels (mailing list, forum, feeds) can improve the process. > Maybe we need some sort of etiquette for the > mailing list when it comes to making group decisions on points? +1 - Mario > 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
