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Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:22:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: Emily Shaffer Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: propose community voting process In-Reply-To: <20261021200341.378978-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> (Emily Shaffer's message of "Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:03:41 -0700") References: <20261021200341.378978-1-emilyshaffer@google.com> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:22:13 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) 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 Content-Type: text/plain Emily Shaffer writes: > Not all discussions can be settled by community consensus. For truly > contentious decisions we need a way to democratically make a decision > that represents the majority will of the project. This doc outlines the > methodology we use in the rare case where we need to vote to make a > decision. > > Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer > --- > I expect the approval of the voting process itself to be fairly non-contentious > (or else I haven't managed to write a fair process!) so for approving the > voting process, I suggest we use a similar approach to the one we did with the > Code of Conduct back in 2019[2][3]: discussing the process itself, ultimately > coming to general consensus, and collecting a list of Acked-by: to put onto the > commit outlining the voting process. Sounds sensible. One request to change the wording of the title is to use a verb stronger than "propose". The act of sending this patch alone is a proposal, but once committed and merged, that is not "propose a process", but "define the process used in this community". > And by the way, I do think that we should > check in the voting process; it seems likely to me that we will want to revise > the AI policy again given the pace of development, and it may be useful for > other discussions that we've had trouble resolving in the past. > > BTW, there are some parts of this proposal that I still don't have a good > answer for, so look for my self-review immediately to follow, highlighting open > questions. Thanks for starting the process.