On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 at 16:04:41, Balló György wrote:
Hi,
The Trusted Users list is a bit different between Archweb and AUR. It looks like it's unclear which developer is a TU also. This means that we don't know how many active TUs are there, therefore can't ensure that the quorum meets on each votes. There are four categories:
Just in case you didn't notice: The latest AUR release has a feature that automatically tells you whether the quorum has been reached or not.
[...] According to Trusted User Bylaws, TUs (and only TUs) must take part in votes. Therefore there should be a clear implementation like this:
- Developers who want to take part in votes should set their account type to 'Trusted User' (or to a new 'Developer+Trusted User' type) in AUR, and they should be added to the Arch Linux Trusted Users page[1].
- Developers who don't want to take part in votes should set their account type to 'Developer' in AUR, and they should be removed from the Arch Linux Trusted Users page[1].
- Users with 'Developers' account type in AUR should not be allowed to vote.
What is your opinion?
Agreed. I will submit a patch to exclude developers from TU votes soon (not that I mistrust developers -- it just seems like the right thing to do).
[1] https://www.archlinux.org/trustedusers/
-- György Balló (City-busz) Trusted User