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
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