[haiku-development] Re: Formalize voting rules

  • From: waddlesplash <waddlesplash@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Haiku Development ML <haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 20:03:46 -0500

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Jonathan Schleifer
<js-haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1.) Haiku is a democratic project, where all decisions are made by the
developers.
2.) Developers is defined as all persons having commit access to the main
Haiku repository. Active developers is defined as all persons having used
their commit access within the last 365 days.
3.) Only a developer can start a vote.
4.) Each developer has exactly 1 vote on each topic to be voted on.
5.) In order to reach a decision, at least 51% of the active developers need
to cast their vote. Should this quorum not be reached within 1 month, no
decision is reached. After another month, the topic can be proposed again and
voted on again.
6.) In case of a tie, no decision is reached. The same procedure as in 5.)
applies.

What about abstentions? In the past, some votes for commit access have
been 100% +1s, but no clear record of who did/didn't vote.

Also, 51% sounds a bit low to me. If there's something that
controversial, we probably should step back and discuss it more. Maybe
70% would be a better choice?

-waddlesplash

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