Allan McRae wrote:

Xavier wrote:

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Hello,

I am curious why no one is interested in this : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2008-February/007020.html Besides many other advantages like automation and anonymity, it should remove noise on this ML and prevent non-TU from voting. But maybe that's where the fun is (old school ftw) :) Otherwise, if there was a real interest, then finishing that project shouldn't be a big problem.

I think we need to vote on whether we use it first.

Allan

I'm not a TU but I do play one on TV... (or not)... Maybe you should have a vote as to whether to have a vote about having a vote about voting. At a certain point this whole democracy thing gets stupid. If you have to vote for every little thing then nothing will ever get done. There are several reasons why the US is not a straight democracy but one of them is that voting on every single little issue would be too troublesome. So, while my vote counts for nothing, please implement the above mentioned voting system and get it over with! There really has to be someone who can make some executive decisions without asking mom if it's OK.

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Pierre CHAPUIS wrote:

Le Wed, 7 May 2008 14:03:17 +0200, Xavier a écrit :>

Do you really think anonymity is needed ?

I consider the fact that anybody can see the votes of the TU a good thing, it makes their actions more "transparent" to the community.

To prevent non-TU from voting, just precising in the original post that voting is for TU only should be OK...

To be honest, I am not even sure a vote is needed in the first place. In my opinion, all the previous steps are already enough : presentation on the ML, looking for a sponsor, and discussion period. If no one has anything bad to say during the discussion period, or if it's only a few suggestions than the new applicant takes care of, then who is going to vote no? Same applies for technical decisions : if a change is proposed and a few people find this is a good idea, and no one strongly objects, it should be fine as well. But well, I am getting way off-topic and I am not even a TU so I am not concerned about this and my opinion doesn't matter. So back on topic: I don't know if anonymity is needed. From my point of view, the main advantage of the new method would be to make the task easier overall and remove noise from the ML. Preventing non-TU from voting and allowing anonymity are just side effects of this new method but they are not tied to it. It's rather interesting that I don't even follow aur-dev so I wasn't aware of that mail : http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2008-May/000249.html I think this justifies my original mail as an attempt of not losing a potentially useful contribution from wizzo.