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Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:32:01 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ThreadId: AGAb6ilPifF3 Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:31:41 +0200 From: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" To: "Junio C Hamano" , "Phillip Wood" Cc: "Emily Shaffer" , git@vger.kernel.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20261021200341.378978-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 23, 2026, at 06:48, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Phillip Wood writes: >>[snip] >> I also think it would be sensible to restrict eligibility to the curr= ent >> set of active contributors, who will have to live with the consequenc= es >> of the decision, by requiring eligible contributions to have been made >> in the previous two years. I have historic contributions in a couple = of >> projects that I'm not active in anymore and I would not expect to be >> able to influence an decisions those projects make now. > > But do you care about these past projects enough to (1) notice that > they are having a policy discussion, (2) bother visiting them again > to learn their current voting procedures, and (3) actually cast a > vote to help improve them? You may not have been active recently, > but if you care enough, and if your past knowledge of how the > project works still applies, wouldn't the project participants > appreciate your input? > I see the concern wrt. dogpiling from non-active contributors,[1] but it seems very impractical. A dogpile (this was the word used so I=E2=80=99l= l just stick to it) a la GitHub issues means that someone links to a GitHub issue (which is open to all) and many, many outsiders comment on the issue. For example. But imagine this happening via social media. All of the people ready to dogpile would also need to have contributed in the past. How could you get a flood of such a filtered set? Imagine vote whipping former Git contributors who have scratched an itch, fixed a bug, or fixed three typos, 5=E2=80=9320 years ago, to get = them all to vote for or against something. Okay, again no one made this argument.[1] But this is to illustrate that the worst-case dogpiling (or vote whipping) is not feasible. =E2=80=A0 1: This is not to say that anyone in particular had this conce= rn. But I could imagine it. >[snip]