[GRASS-PSC] Open issues regarding OSGeo Incubation

[Paul Kelly]

Hello Massimiliano

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:

> With reference at the arnulf mail, i was looking for adding the voting 
> procedure....

Just now I have added this to CVS...
(sorry for not using the wiki - I find CVS easier and with less scope for 
mistakes as I am editing my local copy directly and not copying and 
pasting into a web browser. Also think it seems wrong and confusing to 
have two copies of everything in Wiki and Doxygen format, especially when 
doxygen format can be easily converted to HTML.)

http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/grass6/rfc/RFC1_PSC.dox
http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/grass6/rfc/RFC3_PSC.dox

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> Some question arise to me:
> - One major point is the end of a voting session..... when it happens? only 
> with consensum? or maximum after 2 week?

In the new version (RFC3) I used the phrase "close the vote" - I assume 
the person who calls the vote will close it some time after four days have 
passed (I thnk we agreed on the four days period before?) but the chairman 
can cut this short if necessary. The procedure for "closing the vote" 
should probably be explained though.

> - As Paul asked: Should a single -1 kill a vote (ie. unanimous)?  There are 
> ten of us on the PSC.  In theory, a +9/-1 vote will get killed.

Yes I agree with that. We have to trust that if someone votes -1 they are 
likely to have a valid objection that others haven't considered yet. I 
don't have a problem with the voting process as written in the document. 
Just the way we were operating it. E.g. the document says a +1 means the 
voter is willing to support the implementation of the proposal. The 
implication being, that if you vote +1 you are going to be putting in 
an active effort to get whatever you voted on to happen. Maybe that should 
be worded even more strongly? I just felt we were getting carried away 
with sending out loads of e-mails with +1 in them and no other words and 
it looked silly.

Paul