[Xesam] Decision making process

Philip Van Hoof spam at pvanhoof.be
Tue Aug 18 01:57:52 PDT 2009


On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 11:49 +0300, Evgeny Egorochkin wrote:
> This is taken from 
> https://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/oscaf/wiki/OntologyMaintenance
> 
> "== Decision-making Process ==
> 
> Proposals by Evgeny Egorochkin:
>  * Consensus-based for important issues.
>   * Majority vote doesn't suit us because 51% approval is just a good excuse 
> to sweep under the rug a fundamental rift in the community.
>   * Ideas should be judged on merit based on a shared vision of the 
> participants.
>   * It's really hard to decide who has a voting power in a highly dynamic and 
> distributed community like ours.
>  * Minor issues may be up for voting if no consensus is found to avoid the 
> project getting stuck and move on to something more important.
>  * Ontology maintainers are responsible for ensuring decision meet consensus 
> criteria. This means either:
>   * Waiting long enough for all parties involved to either comment or ignore 
> the issue(considered an abstention).
>   * Contacting affected parties to obtain either their comment, confirm 
> abstention or to set a deadline for them to express their opinion.
>   As a consequence of being responsible, commits to the repository need a 
> maintainer approval.
>  * No ticket - no commit policy. This is important to document our decisions. 
> Every change must be discussed in the issue tracker before being committed. 
> Every comment of parties affected by the decision must be added to the ticket 
> regardless of the way the comment was communicated. The exception to this 
> policy is minor technical defects such as typos, formatting.
> "
> 
> I'd like to know if I can remove "Proposals by Evgeny Egorochkin:" from this 
> section of the page. That is, please vote or comment ;)

Ok for me

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