Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process

[Weijie Yuan <wy@wyuan.org>]

Tuomas Ahola <taahol@utu.fi> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > [...]
> > I previously mentioned "topic count", but commits are far easier to
> > count.  So instead of requiring two topics in released versions,
> > perhaps requiring five commits would be easier to implement and
> > explain.
> > 
> 
> Quoting the summit notes:
> 
> } * Emily: Have we used a voting process for something like this before?
> } 
> } * Patrick: We need proposals and a vote. Who would be allowed to vote?
> } 
> } * Peff: Active developers with a track record; perhaps a threshold such
> }   as 50 merged patches.
> } 
> 
> So it seems that Peff's proposed threshold was substantially higher
> than what has been put forth in this thread.  Any comments on that?

Although I could selfishly say that I'd like to have a vote, since I
might just meet the threshold in Junio's example, I'm rather afraid that
I'm not qualified enough and don't have the kind of foresight like Junio
and Peff have to justify having an equal say in Git's direction.

Thanks.