Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-20 Thread Alex Harui
Consensus Approval works great until you have someone who others rightly or wrongly perceive as an obstructionist. Then it just makes the whole project the loser. At least one project uses majority approval for new members, but a serious attempt is made to make sure that the vote is unanimous any

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-20 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 3/20/15 9:04 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > Hi all, > > If I understand the various documents/pages available regarding voting > correctly, voting a new member in can't be vetoed. Likewise is it with > respect to voting for board members. If I have missed a page somewhere, > please point me to it an

Re: Veto! Veto?

2015-03-20 Thread Marvin Humphrey
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Pierre Smits wrote: > Wouldn't a simple majority (more +1 than -1 votes) yield the same result? Majority rule votes degrade community. Whenever you have a contended vote, you produce losers who feel alienated[1]. In contrast, consensus decision making forces th

Veto! Veto?

2015-03-20 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi all, If I understand the various documents/pages available regarding voting correctly, voting a new member in can't be vetoed. Likewise is it with respect to voting for board members. If I have missed a page somewhere, please point me to it and I stand corrected. The following document https:/

Re: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/03/2015 Rich Bowen wrote: http://templates.openoffice.org/en/search?search_api_views_fulltext=apachecon&sort_by=created&sort_order=ASC and also http://people.apache.org/~nick/NickTemplateACEU14.odp Also, see http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/community-dev/201411.mbox/browser for disc

Re: commit rights to ComDev non-community.a.o site resources

2015-03-20 Thread Rich Bowen
+1 On 03/19/2015 01:27 PM, Ross Gardler (MS OPEN TECH) wrote: +1 to lazy consensus - this is a reversible step -Original Message- From: Ulrich Stärk [mailto:u...@spielviel.de] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 10:08 AM To: dev@community.apache.org Subject: Re: commit rights to ComDev non-c

Re: commit rights to ComDev non-community.a.o site resources

2015-03-20 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: > ...I assume lazy consensus and will go ahead and modify the permissions if > nobody objects within > the next 72 hours Sure, thanks for doing that! -Bertrand