Stephen Gallagher wrote:
* Most FESCo votes will be performed in the tickets. FESCo members
will
have one week[1] from the creation of the ticket to vote. So long as at
least three members have voted, the majority of votes at the end of that
week will be counted as the result. If three votes are not received in the
first week, voting will be extended by one additional week and the minimum
required responses reduced to a single vote. If by the end of that second
week no votes have been counted, it will be treated as a vote *against*
any change requested by the reporter, thus preserving the current status
however it stands. We do not expect this clause to ever be invoked.
Ouch!
With the previous policy, any issues for FESCo would be tabled for a meeting
and announced on this list before the actual meeting. That gave a chance to
the community to comment on the ticket and/or attend the meeting to join the
discussion. Thus, the community had a chance to point out any issues with
the submitted proposal before FESCo started voting.
With the new policy, the voting starts immediately with the creation of the
ticket (of which FESCo members get notified by mail, whereas the community
at large does not) and has a short deadline of 1 week, encouraging voting
sooner rather than later. As a result, FESCo members will now almost always
vote based on only the submitter's biased writeup (the submitter of a
proposal will rarely point out, or even be aware of, all of its drawbacks)
before anybody from the community even gets a chance to see the ticket, let
alone reply.
Kevin Kofler