Re: oVirt comminuty voting

On 09/13/2011 08:54 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > A project lead implies that somehow his/her vote is more important > than anyone else's, which is not how the ASF works. > > The idea is to build a community that strives for consensus so that > the need for tie-breaking votes isn't required… That's one model, but it's not the only model. As it happens, there's a good LWN article right now on this topic. http://lwn.net/Articles/458094/ The simple fact is, a large part of the ecosystem we're trying to build is already existing and has a diverse development model. If we don't accommodate development model diversity, then we're going to exclude large parts of the ecosystem which is going to result in fragmentation. Regards, Anthony Liguori > If half the community > thinks A and the other B, then there is for sure no consensus. > >> >> Having 3 maintainers does not mean there isn't an overall project leader. We have around 30 maintainers in QEMU but only one project leader. The project leader casts the tie breaking vote. >> >> It's the same model as the kernel and many other communities. >> >> Regards, >> >> Anthony Liguori > > -- > Jim Jagielski | jimjag(a)redhat.com | 443-324-8390 (cell) >