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[aur-general] Voting period - Rules governing packages entering [community]

Allan McRae

8 Dec 2008 8 Dec '08

12:54 a.m.

Hi TUs, This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%. For your reference: [proposal] * Only "popular" packages may enter the repo, as defined by 1% usage from pkgstats or 10 votes on the AUR. * Automatic exceptions to this rule are: - i18n packages - accessibility packages - drivers - dependencies of packages who satisfy the definition of popular, including makedeps and optdeps - packages that are part of a collection and are intended to be distributed together, provided a part of this collection satisfies the definition of popular * Any additions not covered by the above criteria must first be proposed on the aur-general mailing list, explaining the reason for the exemption (e.g. renamed package, new package). The agreement of three other TUs is required for the package to be accepted into [community]. Proposed additions from TUs with large numbers of "non-popular" packages are more likely to be rejected. * TUs are strongly encouraged to move packages they currently maintain from [community] if they have low usage. No enforcement will be made, although resigning TUs packages may be filtered before adoption can occur. [end proposal] Allan

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Aaron Griffin

9 Dec 9 Dec

10:50 a.m.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.

No votes yet :(

Loui Chang

10:53 a.m.

New subject: [aur-general] Voting period - Rules governing packages entering [community]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:50:02PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.

No votes yet :(

They're on the AUR web interface. There are still about eight TUs that haven't voted though. Please vote folks! This is an important change in the way we're doing things! If you're logged in AUR go here: http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=16

Aaron Griffin

11:03 a.m.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Loui Chang wrote:

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:50:02PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.

No votes yet :(

They're on the AUR web interface. There are still about eight TUs that haven't voted though. Please vote folks! This is an important change in the way we're doing things!

If you're logged in AUR go here: http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=16

Oh neat. I was trying to watch this vote because it was so incendiary to begin with, and saw no mails. I forgot the TUs switched to web-based voting.

Cilyan Olowen

5:33 p.m.

By the way, this would be maybe great that normal users (maybe at least ones that are logged on AUR) could access some of the information as read only. I sometimes miss the voting process by mail where we could follow things. Especially when it is of that importance. 2008/12/9 Aaron Griffin :

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On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Loui Chang wrote:

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On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 12:50:02PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.

No votes yet :(

They're on the AUR web interface. There are still about eight TUs that haven't voted though. Please vote folks! This is an important change in the way we're doing things!

If you're logged in AUR go here: http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=16

Oh neat. I was trying to watch this vote because it was so incendiary to begin with, and saw no mails. I forgot the TUs switched to web-based voting.

Allan McRae

15 Dec 15 Dec

5:47 a.m.

New subject: [aur-general] Voting period - Rules governing packages entering [community]

Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.

The voting period has now ended. 30 TUs voted and as far as I can tell that is everyone so quorum was met. Results: 21 Yes, 8 No, 1 Abstain So the rules for packages entering the [community] repo are now in effect. Rules can be viewed at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rules_Governing_the_Community_Repo Allan

Aaron Schaefer

9:53 a.m.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.

The voting period has now ended. 30 TUs voted and as far as I can tell that is everyone so quorum was met.

Results: 21 Yes, 8 No, 1 Abstain

Unless my math is incorrect, 21/30 = 0.7 which is less than 0.75. Did this change to not need a quorum of 75% as was stated in the previous emails? -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

Loui Chang

10:08 a.m.

New subject: [aur-general] Voting period - Rules governing packages entering [community]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:53:17PM -0500, Aaron Schaefer wrote:

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On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Allan McRae wrote:

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Allan McRae wrote:

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Hi TUs,

This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for packages entering the [community] repo. Voting is being done on the AUR interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.

The voting period has now ended. 30 TUs voted and as far as I can tell that is everyone so quorum was met.

Results: 21 Yes, 8 No, 1 Abstain

Unless my math is incorrect, 21/30 = 0.7 which is less than 0.75. Did this change to not need a quorum of 75% as was stated in the previous emails?

Quorum means a minumum number of members voting for the vote to be valid. Only a simple majority is needed after that. The Quorum in this case was 100%. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum for further explanation. This vote passed quite handily. At 72% approval a strong message is being conveyed.

Aaron Schaefer

11:14 a.m.

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Quorum means a minumum number of members voting for the vote to be valid. Only a simple majority is needed after that. The Quorum in this case was 100%.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum for further explanation.

This vote passed quite handily. At 72% approval a strong message is being conveyed.

My apologies, I had misunderstood the quorum requirement...thanks for the link. -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

Aaron Griffin

11:22 a.m.

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Aaron Schaefer wrote:

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Quorum means a minumum number of members voting for the vote to be valid. Only a simple majority is needed after that. The Quorum in this case was 100%.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum for further explanation.

This vote passed quite handily. At 72% approval a strong message is being conveyed.

My apologies, I had misunderstood the quorum requirement...thanks for the link.

Hey don't worry. The first time I read the TU bylaws, I was like "wtf is a quorum?"

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