Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (317 mails)

["Joop Boonen" <joop.boonen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, January 26, 2012 9:16 am, Per Jessen wrote:
> Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2012-01-25 at 23:50 +0100, jdd wrote:
> > > Le 25/01/2012 23:11, Bryen M Yunashko a écrit :
> > >
> > > > I do know a number of people out there chose to "strike" against
> > > > voting,
> > > may be a simple way should be to say "voting is mandatory", and
> > > adding two options in the vote: "Blank vote" and "I don't like the
> > > way the vote is made" or something similar, allowing people that now
> > > don't vote for a reason a way to show they advice.
> > >
> > > The people not voting could then be approached to know what happen
> > > and after that I agree for nearly all what was said is the initial
> > > post
> > >
> > > jdd
> >
> > I would not be in favor of a mandatory vote, especially as a reason to
> > disqualify their membership.  There are 1,000,001 reasons why someone
> > might not or could not vote even though they were already eligible to.
>
> Hmm, I think jdd has got something here.  We are already discussing
> which contributions qualify for membership. A vote is a pretty minimal
> contribution, so asking active members to participate can't be too
> much.  Also, there aren't really that many votes, it's hardly a major
> hassle.

Following this discussion i get the feeling that voting is the most
important thing a member can do.

I think a member that does a lot if contributions in the form of packages,
wiki, support, ambassador, board member etc is more important than just
voting.

I'm not at all in favor of mandatory vote.
For the following reasons.
1) The member doesn't know the people running for the board, and chooses
for this reason not to vote.
2) The member is only interested in the technical aspect of the distro and
doesn't want to be a part of the "bureaucratic" part of openSUSE.

I think these are valid reasons.

I think it's better that someone votes that wants to vote and takes the
time checkout for whom he/she votes, then someone who just votes in
random.

> --
> Per Jessen, Zürich (2.6°C)
>
> --

Regards,

Joop.


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