In my last few years at Adobe I worked with Day Software in Switzerland which we had just acquired. They did a lot of open-source stuff with Apache and had this neat decision-making scheme (which may have originated at Apache — I’m unaware of its source):
If you need direction on something, you send an email to the list. (This part is no different than what we do today.) If someone agrees, they reply with “+1”. If someone wants to halt progress until either some discussion is had or until another direction is chosen they veto with a “-1”. When you accumulate three +1s and are clear of -1s you’re good to go. If you do get one or more -1s you’re blocked until those folks change their input to either a “+0” or a “+1”. If you haven’t yet reached three +1s after a time-out period (I think we used a week but it might have been two), but you are clear of -1s, you can send a message to the list indicating a default-consensus and go ahead and implement it. Might this be useful for us? _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
