Re: Vote process change proposal

Hi, 2015-03-17 21:35 GMT+01:00 Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>: > Or, even worse, given current tendencies, somebody submits a proposal, > couple of people say "yeah good idea", then vote happens and somehow > there's 30 "no" votes without any explanation - and without possibility > to fix it since by the time the proposer knows it the proposal is > already declined. It wouldn't be very encouraging to submit RFCs with > such process. Unrelated to the suggestion of hiding votes: How about adding an *optional* field next to the vote, where a voter can link to his reasoning (a link to a mail to the list preferably). This might make picking up older rfcs (,that were declined for earlier versions easier if the general idea of the rfc isn't flawed) and collects reasons for the outcome of an rfc without searching through months of discussions. This change might also make it easier for the author to chase down, why a vote failed, even if the prior discussion didn't point into that direction.