Discussion on Addressing Voting Issues and Proposed Update to Committer Rules

[Hauke Mehrtens]

On 6/9/25 11:56, Robert Marko wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 11:43, Petr Štetiar <ynezz at true.cz> wrote:
>>
>> Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> [2025-05-03 18:45:48]:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>> The current rule regarding inactive committers is not functioning as
>>> intended:
>>>> Committers being unreachable for three months in a row shall get
>>>> their commit and voting rights revoked in order to retain the ability
>>>> to do majority votes among the remaining active committers.
>>>
>>> Proposal for an Inactive Committer Category
>>>
>>> I’d like to propose introducing a formal “inactive committer” category. The
>>> core idea is to provide a clearer distinction between active and inactive
>>> participants, as well as improve security by reducing the number of people
>>> with access to our repositories.
>>
>> I like KISS stuff and thus I like the idea of counting only votes of participants in
>> the ongoing vote. So basically a reverse approach, considering only Active
>> Committers.
>>
>>    previous:  decided by simple majority votes
>>    new:       decided by simple majority votes cast by participants in the current vote
> 
> I would like this, as its getting nearly impossible reaching a quorum currently.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert
>>
>>   --- rules.txt  2025-06-09 09:16:38.006001404 +0000
>>   +++ rules-next.txt     2025-06-09 09:19:15.091088134 +0000
>>   @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>>    The only role distinction within the OpenWrt (former LEDE) project is between committers and non-committers, there is no core developer group or other specially privileged members.
>>    All committers have the right to vote and are invited to liberally exercise this voting right in order to keep a broad consensus on project matters.
>>   -Project matters, overall development directions etc. are decided by simple majority votes. Votes may be held in different ways like simple yes/no decisions, majority decisions among multiple proposed choices etc.
>>   +Project matters, overall development directions etc. are decided by simple majority votes cast by participants in the current vote. Votes may be held in different ways like simple yes/no decisions, majority decisions among multiple proposed choices etc.
>>    Committers being unreachable for three months in a row shall get their commit and voting rights revoked in order to retain the ability to do majority votes among the remaining active committers.
>>    There shall be only full commit rights in any case, no partial access or otherwise restricted access to the repositories.
>>    Frequent contributors may become committers after a simple majority agreement among existing committers. Project members are free to suggest suitable people.
>>
>> BTW not my original idea, I've collected this from at least 2 different members
>> during the years.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Petr
>>
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Hi,

I would like to have a quorum in a vote. The quorum should be lover than 
what it is now.

Hauke