Manuel M T Chakravarty wrote:
I agree with Ian. Voting has no meaning if the constituency is not properly defined.
A process in which a maintainer is in charge and makes the decision of whether a proposal has meaningful widespread support and is technically sound has served us well in the past. As Ian wrote,
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I don't care whether we call the person in charge maintainer, tsar, secretary, or something else. The point is that there is one person who makes the final decision, but who listens to and is held responsible by the community as a whole. (Instead of one person, it may be a small closely cooperating group of people for a large artefact.)
Completely agree. When I wrote "vote" I didn't mean a literal vote, but the various opinions in the community. It is at the secretary/tsar/...'s discretion to weigh the different arguments and turn them into a decision. Best regards, Heinrich Apfelmus -- http://apfelmus.nfshost.com