RE: [PEAR-DEV] voting

> From: Leandro Lucarella [mailto:luca@llucax.hn.org] On Behalf Of Leandro > Lucarella > Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 3:56 PM > To: Martin Jansen; pear-dev@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PEAR-DEV] voting > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Martin Jansen, el miércoles 2 de abril a las 10:08 me escribiste: > > On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 09:57, Robin Ericsson wrote: > > > Is really everyone entitled to vote? If so, that sounds like a bad > idea. > > > > > > Shouldn't only the votes from the "core pear people" count? > > > > For the upcoming voting system on pear.php.net, which I'm building > > currently, I've planned the following system: > > > > Generally everybody can vote, but every proposal needs to at least get > > five positive votes from people having a pear.php.net account. > > So, really, the votes of other people are just cosmetic... While Martins system has not gone through a community wide decision making process and I am not yet quite sure if I like this proposal I would like to comment none the less. No those votes would not be cosmetic. As PEAR grows so will the amount of knowledge required to make educated decisions. I think this is atleast part of the reason why Martin is suggesting such a system. At the same time people with a pear.php.net account will see those other votes and will take those into account. If there are a lot of votes than this will move examination of that package up in the queue of things to do. Even if the package itself is not accepted (for example because the code is not structured well or the package should rather be merged etc) a lot of +1 would show that there is a need for a package that does something similar etc. Anyways as I have said in my previous mail: Currently PEAR believes that everybody is doing their best to make a good decision. Also it expects that people only comment about things they are actually competent in. Regards, Lukas