On 05/11/2017 12:33 AM, Paul Oranje wrote: > >> Some of the rules has to change, and as we've discussed it with John, one >> might want to send upstream submissions to make OpenWrt show up there like >> other projects do. You might also want to open a private conversation >> between the upstream platform / driver maintainer where having a project >> email address could be useful. Personally I only use my owrt address for >> FOSS related stuff and as far as I know, most people do the same. >> >> LEDE has a rule which says: "Committers being unreachable for three months >> in a row shall get their commit and voting rights revoked in order to retain >> the ability to do majority votes among the remaining active committers." >> This rule is clearly problematic if you would like to extend voting rights >> to non-coders which I believe we want to do. Someone maintaining the wiki or >> the forums might never commit anything, but we do want to get their opinion >> heard. In the past we didn't make it easy for the community to interfere >> with decisions, I doubt we want to make the same mistake again. > Intentions matter. Nonetheless a rule that tries to prevent that > non-cooperation can be used as a way to obstruct, should not be set aside by > intentions; this rule may very well be a sleeping rule that, unhoped for, > might just be needed when lesser intentions become a problem. While on the > other hand in the interpretation of a rule, its intention is very relevant > and helps to apply it to cases that may seem not to fit when interpreted in a > (to) narrowly strict way. > >
That's easily dealt with by adding conditions for non-programmers to get (and also lose) "voting rights", while leaving the current condition for programmers. -Alberto _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
