Martín Ferrari <tin...@tincho.org> writes: > Hi, > > On 09/12/14 19:17, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> For the past couple of years, we've had two meetings, a first meeting >> where some questions were asked, problems were pointed out, action items >> for the bid teams were proposed, etc. And a second meeting where the >> actual decision took place. >> >> I'm not too convinced of the two-meeting format, the committee is >> composed from a lot of people with very different timezones, and getting >> them all together for both meetings means a lot of time and energy spent >> on that, for very little benefit. >> >> Instead, I'd rather have only one (the decision meeting), and have all >> the other conversation be done over the mailing list in advance. > > I think that if we are going to keep only one meeting, it should be > early in the process to allow (force) everybody to think about the bids > in depth, to ask many questions, to get a feel of the bids, the > expectations of the committee, and to understand the process. > > We have experience of the committee not doing the homework early enough, > or the bids only realising problems when it is too late. So I think an > early meeting would help a lot. > > I also think that the best outcome would be not to have a decision > meeting at all, because with the mailing list discussions it had become > clear which bid is the winner, and leave the decision meeting as a last > recourse.
I agree that the best outcome is to have consensus about the clear winner. If there is consensus a decision meeting is not needed. The problem I see is how to determine the consensus. Consensus is most of the time not obvious in maillinglist discussions. So I would prefer some form of vote on the mailinglist. We could even go so far to say if in a first vote on the mailinglist more than 2/3 of the comittee members vote for one bid, then we skip the decision meeting, otherwise a decision meeting takes places as there is not yet enough support for one clear winner. Gaudenz _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
