Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 02:35:07 +0000 From: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Larry Sica <lomion@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dillon@'s commit bit: I object Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.1.20030205022413.01d3e9a8@popserver.sfu.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030205021623.GP12525@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <3C66FB8E-3873-11D7-9842-000393A335A2@mac.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20030204110551.00c54680@localhost> <3C66FB8E-3873-11D7-9842-000393A335A2@mac.com>
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At 12:46 05/02/2003 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>On Tuesday, 4 February 2003 at 14:02:41 -0500, Larry Sica wrote:
> > I do not have the expertise to do any hard core programming, does that
> > mean i therefore should have no say? What if i write a number of
> > articles, or am really helpful? Or maintain hundreds of freebsd
> > systems? Does my investment seem less just because I am not a
> > committer?
>
>This is a valid viewpoint. I've been wondering for some time how we
>could do this. You can contribute other things than code to the
>source tree, of course, such as documentation. But I don't see a good
>way to include systems administrators (except in exactly that function
>within the project, and opportunities there are limited). We've also
>had problems with advocacy: some advocates are somewhat extreme, and
>we're concerned they're doing the project more harm than good. If you
>can come up with some good suggestions, we'd like to see them (at the
>risk of Yet Another Bike Shed).
I think the voting must be restricted to committers, just because there
is otherwise no good way of generating a voting list. That said, I don't
see why -core must be a subset of the people who vote in -core elections.
How about establishing a rule that -core must include at least one
representative from each of {bin, ports, doc, advocacy}, and allowing
anyone to stand for election (provided they are nominated by a
committer)? This would leave "control" pretty much where it is right now;
but it would at least provide a voice for advocacy.
Colin Percival
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