#12: Fedora Council Charter Draft: collect concerns for revisions in preparation
for vote
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Reporter: mattdm | Owner: mattdm
Status: new | Priority: critical
Component: Board Meta | Resolution:
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Comment (by immanetize):
A lot of the discussion here so far has been on voting; who gets a vote,
what constitutes an accepted vote, how the voters are selected, how a vote
is blocked, and so on.
While a lot of things definitely will *need* to come down to a vote, I
strongly believe that the charge given to this council should not be one
of producing voted decisions. The current board is arguably vote-centric,
and perhaps part of the struggle for that body to have influence comes
from a posture of waiting for questions to be posed that require a voting
decision.
To an active coordinating body, I think that voting should be an ancillary
function. The group should be working to coordinate strategy from
stakeholders and the community at large, and produce tactics defined and
accepted by the same. To me, at least, the intention for the council to
operate this way is evident - but I'm concerned that the focus on voting
might lead to a body focused on voting. Or perhaps worse - lead people to
appoint or elect members based on how they might vote, instead of how they
might interact with the community.
I'm reminded of a passage from The Open Source Way:
{{{
Most decisions in an open community are not decided by
a vote. As in a well-working democracy, decisions are
handled by the experts and knowledgeable people who
are in charge at the will of the people around them.
Voting is best left for deciding who is in charge and
the occasional very contentious issue. Don't you wish
it weren't contentious? Wish you could go back and
make a consensus?
}}}
I don't have any specific suggestions on how to codify that, but I hope
the comments can be useful to someone that can.
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