Rule changes / Voting issues

[Felix Fietkau]

Hi,

I took a look at various proposals regarding voting rules changes, and 
here's my take on this subject:

I think RichB's rework of the rules [1] from is a good starting point.
The quorum of 1/3 of active members seems like a step in the right 
direction as well.

However, I do think that we can make it more future proof by using 
Baptiste Jonglez's suggested quorum of 3/2 * sqrt(N), which is based on 
parts of Debian's voting system. By not increasing the quorum linearly 
with more members, we can avoid some scaling issues here.

My proposed modified text based on RichB's draft would be:

* For a simple approval, the proposal must achieve a two-thirds majority
   among the active members who participate in the vote.
   Additionally, the number of approving members must be at least
   3/2 * sqrt(N), with N = the total number of active members,
   regardless of whether they participated in the vote.

Maybe we could even make it even easier to reach quorum by having a 
separate "voting member" status, which is opt-in for all members.
We could allow members without that status to participate in any vote, 
but in cases where they don't, we would just not consider them for the 
sake of reaching quorum.

That way, having more members who don't care about most voting issues 
and contribute only infrequently will not make it harder to have 
successful votes.

Aside from voting on rule changes soon, we should also try to contact 
some inactive members as soon as possible. If for any reason we fail to 
reach quorum on voting for the rule change, we might have a better 
chance in 3 months after a response timeout.

- Felix

[1]: https://github.com/richb-hanover/OpenWrtRules