Discussion on Addressing Voting Issues and Proposed Update to Committer Rules

[Robert Marko]

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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