Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-13 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 13 Dec 2023, dpsmith.dev wrote: > While this survey may have been released with the best of intentions, I can't > help but to find it poorly conceived. Banning words, whether in general or for > a specific instance, is not something to be taken lightly via "informal vote", > and in my humbl

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-13 Thread dpsmith.dev
On 12/1/23 05:27, George Dunlap wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:28 PM Stefano Stabellini wrote: Hi all, This vote is in the context of this thread: https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=169213351810075 To add slightly more context. The issue here is more than a simple "should we use the word

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-12 Thread Kelly Choi
Hi David, I appreciate your concerns, and I agree that the community like any other open source project has room for improvement. It's great to hear that you want to contribute and we're trying to make this easier for all within the project. As such, we are in the process of setting up a TAB to he

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-11 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2023-12-01 at 10:27 +, George Dunlap wrote: > > FWIW I think a "five-point survey" would probably have been somewhat better: > > Regarding the review insisting that the word "broken" be removed from > the updated documentation to the old hypercall: (✔) I think this sort of enforcemen

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-11 Thread Kelly Choi
Hi all, As we haven't yet reached a consensus, let's see what the informal vote looks like in the community by the end of the week. Since the scope and context have changed slightly, anonymous voting is permitted and I will be counting all votes made after Dec 4th. Please only vote once. Should y

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-04 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Mon, 4 Dec 2023, George Dunlap wrote: > And how do we give people practical options to respond to a maintainer > who they think is being "picky" If a maintainer is too picky the contributor and the other maintainers should say that the patch is good enough in their view. If the maintainers disa

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-04 Thread George Dunlap
On Mon, Dec 4, 2023 at 8:16 AM Jan Beulich wrote: > > I am in favor on moving faster and nitpicking less. Also, Andy put the > > effort to produce the patch so he should have the default choice in the > > wording. If the choice is taking the patch as is or rejecting it, I > > would take it as is.

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-04 Thread Jan Beulich
On 01.12.2023 22:44, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Replying here on a couple of different people on this thread. > > > On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: >> I think this form is bad and is not helpful. > > I agree with Tamas and (also Jan) that this form is not helpful. > > > On Fri, 1

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-04 Thread Jan Beulich
On 04.12.2023 06:02, Kelly Choi wrote: > In the specific example above, it's difficult in the sense that informal > voting wasn't officially in the governance yet when the feedback was > raised. What I would recommend in this instance is that if George and > others feel very strongly about removing

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-03 Thread Kelly Choi
Hi everyone, Thank you for your feedback. Firstly, let me apologise if I have caused confusion with the form. It was not intended to be a one answer fits all within the community. Rather, it was created to give community members an option to share how they feel about the term, with the example me

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-01 Thread George Dunlap
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 9:44 PM Stefano Stabellini wrote: > By the informal > voting, we have 3 against "broken" and 2 in favor (not 1 as George wrote > as Andrew's vote counts too). Just to clarify: The opinions on that thread (if you include all versions of the series) were: Andy, Daniel for ke

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-01 Thread Stefano Stabellini
Replying here on a couple of different people on this thread. On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: > I think this form is bad and is not helpful. I agree with Tamas and (also Jan) that this form is not helpful. On Fri, 1 Dec 2023, George Dunlap wrote: > If most people in the community

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-01 Thread George Dunlap
On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 10:28 PM Stefano Stabellini wrote: > > Hi all, > > This vote is in the context of this thread: > https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=169213351810075 To add slightly more context. The issue here is more than a simple "should we use the word broken or not". We already have a

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-12-01 Thread Julien Grall
Hi Stefano, On 30/11/2023 22:27, Stefano Stabellini wrote: Hi all, This vote is in the context of this thread: https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=169213351810075 Thanks for providing the context + CCing committers. First I will echo what Jan said and mention that providing context to the vote

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-11-30 Thread Jan Beulich
On 30.11.2023 23:57, Tamas K Lengyel wrote: > I think this form is bad and is not helpful. We ought to be able to > recommend an alternative term beside "broken" and "deprecated". I > would not use the term broken in this context but that also doesn't > mean we shouldn't use it in any context. But

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-11-30 Thread Tamas K Lengyel
Hi all, I think this form is bad and is not helpful. We ought to be able to recommend an alternative term beside "broken" and "deprecated". I would not use the term broken in this context but that also doesn't mean we shouldn't use it in any context. But also in this context deprecated is not the r

Re: INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-11-30 Thread Stefano Stabellini
Hi all, This vote is in the context of this thread: https://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=169213351810075 On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, Kelly Choi wrote: > Hi all,  > There have been a few discussions about how we use documentation wording > within the community. Whilst there are differences in opinions and

INFORMAL VOTE REQUIRED - DOCUMENTATION WORDING

2023-11-30 Thread Kelly Choi
Hi all, There have been a few discussions about how we use documentation wording within the community. Whilst there are differences in opinions and perceptions of the definition, it would be helpful to see a wider consensus of how we feel. *Discussion: Should we use the term 'broken' in our docum