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Re: Moving the License Forward
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:52:20 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Dan Boger wrote:
> Requireing a minimum percentage of authors that actually agree that the
> change is needed seems like a good idea to me. Perhaps the percentage
> shouldn't be of all the authors, but of the authors that have been
> active for the past year, or whatever. That will avoid changing the
> license based on 1 yes vote, and nothing else.
Another thought - don't treat the 'no responses' and 'abstain' as identical.
The actual abstain votes could be counted toward a total count, and the ayes
would have to exceed a given fraction of that total.
For example, we could require a 33% threshold for approval. Then, in a vote, we
might experience reponses like:
No reponse 100
Abstain 50
Yes 7
No 1
In this case, the 'total' would be 58, and the vote would fail, because the 7
'yes' votes are less than 33% of the 58 total.
This makes 'abstain' a little bit more like a 'no', but I feel that's a fair
thing. If a large number of people are abstaining (due to lack of interest or
feeling like they don't understand the issue), then probably no changes should
be made. The proposal needs to go back for a rewrite, or more communication, or
at least more publicizing.
Steve
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| (...) I think that's a good idea, and it makes sense to me. Abstain becomes not exactly no (since it doesn't count against the measure), instead it means "I need more information" - which is a valid response, IMO. Oh, and I agree that the checkbox (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| (...) I agree with the timeout, and that the authors need to maintain their email addr on record updated. I'm not sure we should discount Peter's note though, that right now we're setting up a system that by default will accept change - that is not (...) (20 years ago, 13-Jul-04, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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