[Xesam] Decision making process

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

В сообщении от Среда 19 августа 2009 14:32:32 автор Leo Sauermann написал:
> +1,
> good work! democracy with multiple benevolant dictators, an oligarchy of
> maintainers, in Sid Meier's civilisation: this improves production by 100%

:)

> maybe replace the "proposal" phrase with "all ontology maintainers
> agreed and support this process since August 2009",
> so that newcomers may find this mail in the mailinglist.

Done.

> It was Evgeny Egorochkin who said at the right time 18.08.2009 10:49 the
>
> following words:
> > 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 ;)

-- Evgeny