[Xesam] Decision making process

[Sebastian Trüg]

better late then never: I vote yes, too. :)

On Tuesday 18 August 2009 10:49:11 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 ;)
>
>
> -- Evgeny
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