[indiana-discuss] How to start a vote or peer review process

["C. Bergström"]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> C. Bergström wrote:
>> I have some questions in regards to a few things..
>
> As Danek suggests, this seems like questions for ogb-discuss, not 
> pkg-discuss
> or indiana-discuss (or is this a prelude to asking for some sort of 
> vote in
> one of those two projects?).    I've cc'ed ogb-discuss and set 
> reply-to there
> as well.
>
>> 1) Before an important technical decision affecting the OpenSolaris 
>> community and possibly Sun should there be any sort of vote, peer 
>> review, evaluation.. or anything?
>
> Depends on the decision  - most important technical decisions will go 
> through
> code review at the minimum, design review for larger changes, ARC 
> review for
> changes that affect interfaces with other code/projects/users, etc.
>
>> 2) When a technical decision was made which needs a 2nd look.  How is 
>> the voting/review process started and is it possible for someone in 
>> the community to initiate this?
>
> There is no defined formal process that I'm aware of here - just 
> sending mail
> to the appropriate list asking for clarification or explaining why you 
> disagree
> and holding a conversation is the best I can suggest as a first 
> step.   Voting
> is the fallback when consensus can't be reached via conversation.
>
>> 3) After looking at [1] I'm not sure non-binding vs binding votes 
>> will be counted.  For example.. If 5 Sun employees who are binding 
>> votes disagree and vote -1 and 50 people from the community vote +50 
>> and -3 what would the result be?
>
> OpenSolaris voting procedures have no distinction between the votes of 
> those
> employed by Sun vs. those who are not - only between those the 
> community has
> designated as core contributors to a community group  and those who 
> are not.
> Thus in your example, it's impossible to know the outcome without knowing
> whether the voters are core contributors or not - the vast majority of 
> Sun
> employees are not, and their votes would not be counted, while quite a 
> number
> of non-Sun employees are core contributors and their votes would be 
> counted.
> (Your example also doesn't add up - each voter gets either a +1 or -1, so
> the votes of 50 people can't be +50 and -3, since that would be 53 
> people's
> votes.)
>
I thought my example was pretty clear when I said binding vote. (Which 
is how the constitution describes a vote by a core contributor)

Example
-5 binding vote
-3 non-binding votes
+50 non-binding votes
-------------------------
58 votes total


You answered my other question though.

Thanks

./C