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Re: what voting means, what voting doesn't mean

From: Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman_at_collab.net>
Date: 2003-12-19 18:53:06 CET

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 10:58, kfogel@collab.net wrote:

> Instead, a +1 vote should mean that:
>
> 1. You are convinced if this is not fixed for 1.0, it will be much
> more painful to deal with afterwards. Various UI and/or API
> changes probably meet this criterion, but a plain bug fix might
> not, for example.
>
> 2. You have personally reviewed every line of the proposed change,
> and are willing to take equal responsibility with the original
> author for it. If you vote +1, your name will go in the log
> message along with the original author's, and you should be as
> willing to answer for any bugs that result. If you don't have
> the expertise to evaluate a change, then please don't vote on it
> (you can still add a comment saying why you think it should go
> in, and encouraging domain experts to give it consideration).

Hear, hear!

-- Ben, trying to back Karl's Wall of Conservatism against the floodtide
of potential 1.0 changes.

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