During today's FESCo meeting, we encountered an unusual voting situation for the first time: Four FESCo members voted in favor (+1) of a measure and five FESCo members opted to abstain (0) for various reasons. However, the FESCo voting policy currently reads: "A majority of the committee (that is, five out of nine) is required to pass a proposal in a meeting." As a result, we were actually at an impasse until two of the FESCo members opted to change their votes to +1 to resolve the confusion. It was subsequently suggested that we revise the policy to avoid this pitfall in the future. I volunteered to put together a proposal for how this could work and send it to the Fedora Development list for discussion. I propose the following changes to the FESCo voting policy: * To pass any measure, a majority — defined as the greater of half the eligible votes (rounded up) — must vote in favor of the measure. The standard set of eligible votes is one vote per FESCo member. No measure may pass without at least one vote in favor. * Abstaining from a vote (aka "voting 0") is considered to have removed that FESCo member's vote from the set of eligible votes. This must be done explicitly and is never to be assumed from lack of communication. A practical effect of the new abstention rule is that if two FESCo members abstain, the measure would then require only a +4 vote to pass. (A single abstention would still require a +5 vote). I'd also like to propose an additional policy modification that occurred to me while writing this message: * A FESCo member may grant their proxy vote to another member of the Fedora community if they cannot be in attendance for a vote. If they do so, that vote is counted equivalently to any other. Proxy votes MUST be limited to predetermined topics and time period. (e.g. I can say "bookwar has my proxy vote on any topic directly related to ELN" while I am on vacation from MMDD until MMDD, but I cannot give my FESCo seat to a person of my choosing.) _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
