[MPlayer-cvslog] r22386 - trunk/DOCS/tech/new_policy.txt

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 12:40:47PM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
[...]
> >+Vs. Starting a vote
> >+Any single developer can start a vote, to do so she has to send a mail to 
> >the
> 
> she? Only women can start a vote?

no, its common practice to use she instead of he in documents where the
gender of the person isnt known


[...]
> >+that is yes >= no && yes>0 cast a veto against it
> >+Vcc. the votes shall be counted by using the Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD
> 
> Is it this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method ?

its the one used by debian, refering to a changeable thing like wiki
would be a bad idea for policy


[...]
> 
> I don't think that your voting system takes meritocracy into account.

well, suggest a fair one which does and we can disscuss it


> 
> There is also a lot of unclear things - the definition of  admin (e.g.
> case where (s)he is root of mphq but not developer)

"every admin is also a developer" thats clear IMHO, there are no admins
which are not developers that would be inappropriate anyway IMHO
a person with such great power over developers should be a developer
herself otherwise the person would IMHO simply not be qualified to make
decissions over developers


> Also it is not clear what happens when winning option is selected.

elaborate please


> 
> About suspending account. What happens if I commit trojan in code I
> maintain. I'm not breaking any existing rule.
> After the new rule is added would my account be suspended on first or
> on the second offense?

id close your account at the spot if you did that assuming i had the
power :)

also i dont think we need a rule for that as its clear what to do and
something like that didnt happen yet, its more important to deal with
thing which do happen (its a little like the 100 people who die from
terrorists vs. millions who die in car accidents yet though more
liberties are lost to stop terrorists then car accidents)

[...]
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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. -- Aristotle
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