On Tuesday 04 August 2009 15:43:46 Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> On Tuesday 04 August 2009 15:32:39 Henne Vogelsang wrote:

> > Hi,

> >

> > on 08/04/2009 02:50 PM Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> > > On Tuesday 04 August 2009 14:47:53 Henne Vogelsang wrote:

> > >> on 08/04/2009 02:40 PM Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> > >>> On 2009-08-04T14:36:48, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote:

> > >>>>> My take on this is: openSUSE in general uses the technically best

> > >>>>> solution - and this contains both features and stability - and

> > >>>>> where that's not feasible, the most popular solution is used.

> > >>>>

> > >>>> If you want to make this decision making process based on objective

> > >>>> criteria you have to tell us how you want to measure all this.

> > >>>> Stating this is only 2% of the work :)

> > >>>

> > >>> Voting, aka "wisdom of the crowds" aka decision markets?

> > >>

> > >> For the popularity criteria voting is okay. You just have to figure

> > >> out who is eligible for a vote and how to vote and stuff but voting

> > >> for stability or features sounds wrong to me...

> > >

> > > Now I'm confused. I never mentioned voting for stability. And voting

> > > for features is done in openFATE right now - and either I understand

> > > you that you want the voting removed (and then see lots of +1 in the

> > > comments ;-( ) or - and that's the purpose of my write up: What does

> > > voting for features mean? How to interpret it?

> >

> > Okay lets start from the beginning. What are you talking about here? I

> > understood that you are talking about the decision making process for

> > the distribution. Given your subject and your explanation in your mail.

> > Maybe i misunderstood. Whats this mail about then? :)

>

> My mail was meant to start a discussion on how we make decisions about

> features in the openSUSE distribution and how openFATE voting will help.

> We have to clarify what voting means - and can do.

For openFATE the voting is a strong tool to speak up but we shouldn't base a decsion just on a vote. There are more things to involve, eg. survey results, mainainers opinion, quality aspects etc.)

M

>

> Andreas

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