oVirt comminuty voting

[Anthony Liguori]

On 09/13/2011 09:02 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
> On 09/13/2011 09:54 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… If half the community
>> thinks A and the other B, then there is for sure no consensus.
>
>
> I know many of the Linux projects use the concept of a group elected tie
> break role. This is different to ASF. Jim brings up a good point and the
> question is do we want it, or not?

As long as we're preserving autonomy for established projects, I think 
any model as long as it's consistent for smaller projects would work.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Might be best to remove it, and then if a project wants it they have to
> get to the mature phase of the project where they update their voting
> rules if they want to add that role.
>
> thoughts?
>
> Carl.
>