On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 5:54 AM Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > Dne 24. 07. 24 v 20:17 Stephen Gallagher napsal(a): > > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM Miroslav Suchý <msu...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> Dne 24. 07. 24 v 12:30 odp. Joe Orton napsal(a): > >> > >> Having a "majority rule" vote of e.g. packagers or provenpackagers on > >> major technical decisions would be far superior, in my view. Apache > >> communities have worked this way forever. > >> > >> You can always propose this as a change to our process. > > For what it's worth, I don't believe that this process will work well. > > I'm all for democracy, but direct democracy without compulsory voting > > inevitably leads to "grievance-based voting", where the majority of > > folks ignore the discussion and a plurality of voters with a strong > > opinion effectively stuff the ballot box. The effect is to have a > > tyranny of the (loud) minority. The closest we could get to > > "compulsory voting" would be to require a quorum of votes to be > > considered binding, but even the FESCo and Council elections > > traditionally see extremely low voter turnout. I don't think we'd be > > able to reach a sensible quorum on a referendum-based system. > > > Actually, I think that this could help: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland#Referendums > > E.g. if we figured there are lets say 20 Fedora contributors who are > unhappy with the FESCo voting, all contributors could vote in > "referendum" to (dis)approve.
That would be exactly what I described above as "grievance-based voting". -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
