[advocacy-discuss] Advocacy Voting and Project Proposal Process (draft)

[Jim Grisanzio]

Mads Toftum wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 09:04:11PM +0900, Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>   
>> (1) Core Contributor -- Nominated by a Core Contributor, three +1 votes, 
>> no -1 votes, duration within five days, only CCs can vote.
>>     
>
> I can't really see much harm in letting Contributors nominate as well as
> long as you keep the 3 Core Contributor votes requirement.
>   
>> (2) Contributor -- Self nominated or nominated by a Contributor or Core 
>> Contributor, no -1 votes, no minimum or maximum +1 votes, duration 
>> within five days, only CCs can vote.
>>
>>     
> This seems a bit odd to me. Effectively you can nominate yourself and
> slip under the radar if nobody hates you enough to vote no? 
Well, if you put it that way ... :)

> I think it
> would be more "balanced" if you changed this to mirror the procedure in
> (1) and just extended it to accept nominations/votes from Contributors.
>   
Ok, that's a good suggestion to open it up a bit.

>   
>> (3) Project and/or User Group -- Proposal based on the new format below, 
>> one +1 vote, no -1 votes, duration within five days, only CCs can vote.
>>
>>     
> This one looks fine - getting many people to vote for user groups in
> places they've never heard of is probably too big of a requirement.
>   

I'm much less concerned about the Contributor and Core Contributor 
voting, but we do need to make getting UGs easier and faster.  So, cool...

Jim

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