I made some significant proposed changes to governance.html based on a number
of issues that were raised in a number of surveys last year, and via other
means, as well as in the recent discussions related to governance.html changes
(the issue of too many committers in XAPI and XAPI being able to hijack the
entire project).
In any case, the changes are expressed in 4 patches governance.pandoc,
which is the pandoc source for governance.html:
- Code motion changes to make real patches easier to read
No content has been changed
An index was added
Fixed some minor typos and formatting issues
- Added document containing governance related todo list
These do not affect this series and are basically a TODO list for myself
- Significant changes to decision making; some new roles; minor changes
Introduces governance changes
Adds some new roles
Minor formatting changes, such as missing anchors, wrong
Deletes addressed open issues in comments
Add additional comments to raise questions or provide background info
Note that the proposal so far seems to have broad agreement
- Addressed comments on quorum and security team members
In particular this addresses
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-09/msg02160.html
which exhibits a monotonicity failure due to the way how the quorum
was expressed. An example of this failure can be found in
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-09/msg02168.html
Expressing the quorum in terms of "1/3 of +1 votes" instead of a quorum of
"50% of +1 or -1 votes" avoids the monotonicity failure without affecting
the voting arithmetic otherwise. The reason for this is 2/6 of +1 votes and
1/6 of -1 votes equate to 50%. I am sure, Ian Jackson can expand if people
care.
The patch series is based on git://xenbits.xen.org/people/larsk/governance.git
You can see the changes in my personal git repo at http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/
?p=people/larsk/governance.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/2016-overhaul-v3b
Open Issues to be fixed (but these don't need to be reviewed)
- Fix up tables as these don't render properly as html
Also see http://rapporter.github.io/pander/pandoc_table.html
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Changes since v1
- Agreed and changed counting schemes for lazy consensus/votinh
- Added Community Decisions with Funding and Legal Implications
- Clarified AB role in last resort cases
- Removed comments where superceded by decisions we already made
- Adapted sections with dependencies
Changes since v2
- Fixed minor typographic issues
- Removed comments from the series, as these are distracting
and make the document harder to review
- Broke out remaining comments that need addressing at some
point into governance.todo
- Added an extra patch regarding quorum and security team
members
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of issues that were raised in a number of surveys last year, and via other
means, as well as in the recent discussions related to governance.html changes
(the issue of too many committers in XAPI and XAPI being able to hijack the
entire project).
In any case, the changes are expressed in 4 patches governance.pandoc,
which is the pandoc source for governance.html:
- Code motion changes to make real patches easier to read
No content has been changed
An index was added
Fixed some minor typos and formatting issues
- Added document containing governance related todo list
These do not affect this series and are basically a TODO list for myself
- Significant changes to decision making; some new roles; minor changes
Introduces governance changes
Adds some new roles
Minor formatting changes, such as missing anchors, wrong
Deletes addressed open issues in comments
Add additional comments to raise questions or provide background info
Note that the proposal so far seems to have broad agreement
- Addressed comments on quorum and security team members
In particular this addresses
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-09/msg02160.html
which exhibits a monotonicity failure due to the way how the quorum
was expressed. An example of this failure can be found in
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2016-09/msg02168.html
Expressing the quorum in terms of "1/3 of +1 votes" instead of a quorum of
"50% of +1 or -1 votes" avoids the monotonicity failure without affecting
the voting arithmetic otherwise. The reason for this is 2/6 of +1 votes and
1/6 of -1 votes equate to 50%. I am sure, Ian Jackson can expand if people
care.
The patch series is based on git://xenbits.xen.org/people/larsk/governance.git
You can see the changes in my personal git repo at http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/
?p=people/larsk/governance.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/2016-overhaul-v3b
Open Issues to be fixed (but these don't need to be reviewed)
- Fix up tables as these don't render properly as html
Also see http://rapporter.github.io/pander/pandoc_table.html
---
Changes since v1
- Agreed and changed counting schemes for lazy consensus/votinh
- Added Community Decisions with Funding and Legal Implications
- Clarified AB role in last resort cases
- Removed comments where superceded by decisions we already made
- Adapted sections with dependencies
Changes since v2
- Fixed minor typographic issues
- Removed comments from the series, as these are distracting
and make the document harder to review
- Broke out remaining comments that need addressing at some
point into governance.todo
- Added an extra patch regarding quorum and security team
members
--
2.5.4 (Apple Git-61)
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