[haiku-development] Re: Voting procedure (was: Checking consistency of used strings)

Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Voting on these topics may be better done in a less public arena,
> where the voters are allowed to speak their mind objectively without
> fear of hurting that individual's feelings/motivation. Afterwards the
> final outcome would be announced with an explanation of why they were
> denied access, ex, needing to follow the coding guidelines better, 
> not
> enough code has been submitted to gauge their abilities, ...

While it may be hard to hear the critics, I think this should be done 
in the public, too, and it would probably be better to hear more sides 
to the story instead of just the final judgement.
Just like we point out any other failure of our brave committers 
publicly as well.

> Such a private mailing list for voters would allow discussion of 
> other
> topics that aren't yet ready to be public knowledge -- examples,
> coordinating possible events such as SCaLE, initial planning of when
> and what goes into a release, and so on.

I'm not sure what the advantages are of discussing this privately.

Bye,
   Axel.

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