[haiku-inc] Re: RFC: additions to Trademark policy
- From: "Jorge G. Mare" <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-inc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:36:58 -0700
Hi Axel,
Axel Dörfler wrote:
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
On 2010-04-25 at 22:45:53 [+0200], Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx> wrote:
IMO, the easiest way is to keep things mostly one-way:
Contributors
contribute (and discuss), Haiku, Inc. decides. If you're not
happy
with a
decision, voice your opinion. If you're repeatedly unhappy, stop
contributing.
The solution is pretty simple actually: make the Haiku Inc. members
be
elected from time to time. That's about what the community should
be
able to decide - the rest should be in the hands carrying out the
work.
I'm not sure, whether that would be legally possible. At least it
would
require a change of the bylaws. Anyway, the question remains: Who is
"the
community"?
Community was a misnomer; I meant the voting body of Haiku, ie. its
active contributors.
And so did I.
I think this would be the best setup, although it probably doesn't make
much sense currently, given the size of the project.
This is already how it works with development related issues, where the
developers that have earned commit access have the right to vote. If it
works for developers in development, I don't see why it would not work
for people who contributions in other areas of the project too.
The obvious candidates would be those who have made prominent
contributions to the project, say, for example, Humdinger (User Guide),
Scott (ports), Travis Reed (HTA development), WinDuv (User Guide
translation system), perhaps the translation leaders, etc. I probably
forget others, but this is not something that would be difficult to
figure out (we can even use the same method for developers, where
existing contributors can propose their peers for contributor status).
Because of our record of contributions, myself and a few others have
been given the chance to vote on occasion. And while that is certainly
nice, our ability to vote has never been formalized, so it feels as if
it were up to the mood of the moment on whether we can participate or
not. This is really skewed, because some of us have made as many or
maybe even more contributions that some of the people who do get to
vote. That's what I call being considered a class contributor.
Regards,
--
Jorge/aka Koki
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