Re: DIS: How and Whether to Change Patch Certification

[Kerim Aydin via agora-discussion]

On 6/20/2020 11:29 AM, James Cook via agora-discussion wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 at 01:45, Aris Merchant wrote:
>> I think we need a free way of pending patch proposals. The voters appear to
>> agree with me.

A bit of spin here to correct :).  5 voters voted FOR, 5 voters voted
AGAINST.  The ministry (that you assigned?) is what swung this.  Two of
those against votes were zombies, sure.  But your statement above is not
quite on.

nch, may I recommend that the proposal that goes in be submitted to the
Chamber of Justice?  I think the primary purpose of this proposal is to
remove the unfair Crime (negotiating over the exact ease of pending is
secondary).

> One voter's perspective:
> 
> I voted FOR only to protect for the case that someone finds a serious
> bug with pending proposals.
> 
> Personally I think it would be more fun to have a cost for even the
> most trivial bugfix, at least until we get bored of it. (E.g. We could
> create a Society of Concerned Agorans contract where people who want
> to show their concern for the common good can pool Pendants for such a
> purpose.)

The idea of a contract charity (which we've done before) is intriguing and
this makes me want to go for the strongest standard (w/o objection).

Also note: if we're worried about true emergency bugs, we should bring
back Urgent proposal that go through the whole system faster (perhaps even
at higher base cost, not lesser).

> I like the idea of making free pending a dependent action instead of
> guarded by some particular SHALL condition. I'd probably vote for that
> change, then object to any actual use of it unless we figure out
> pending is broken.
> 
> - Falsifian