Hello Felix, Am Mon, May 05, 2025 at 06:12:25PM -0700 schrieb Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.: > Please forgive me for chiming in. I am an outsider and don't care one > way or the other, but the standard for approval seems high. > It may not be wise, or common, to count abstentions as votes against.
well, the standard for approval is at the same time very high and very low. On one hand, just one disapproval can stop a proposal. On the other hand, a question where people are essentially indifferent is almost certain to go through, since "I accept" (which I would argue is rather an abstention than approval) counts as a positive vote towards the 25% quorum. So a proposal "we should paint this shed in red" can easily go through because everyone accepts. Then one day later "we should paint this shed in green" will go through because everyone accepts. And so on. In this case, I explicitly decided not to reply to the GCD because I was against the change, but not so strongly as to vote with "disapprove". So that a motion does not pass, one either needs 1 person to disapprove (which is a strong veto right), or 75% to not reply (which is a very high barrier). Andreas
