oVirt comminuty voting

[Anthony Liguori]

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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