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[PATCH v2 0/1] Add Request-For-Comment process.

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Arun Isaac <arunisaac <at> systemreboot.net>, guix-maintainers <at> gnu.org, mail <at> cbaines.net, efraim <at> flashner.co.il, rekado <at> elephly.net, Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>, guix-devel <at> gnu.org, 74736 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Janneke Nieuwenhuizen <janneke <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#74736] [PATCH v2 0/1] Add Request-For-Comment process.
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:37:01 +0100

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune <at> gmail.com> skribis:

>> Perhaps the “Decision Making” section could stress that, with a
>> paragraph above “To learn …” along these lines:
>>
>>   Consensus building requires that participants share a common goal,
>>   trust each other to act in good faith, listen to one another’s
>>   concerns to take them into account, and are committed to donating
>>   enough of their time to achieve it.
>
> To me, this paragraph would be redundant with this other paragraph:
>
>         Thus, no decision is made against significant concerns; these concerns
>         are actively resolved through counter proposals.  A deliberating member
>         disapproving a proposal bears a responsibility for finding alternatives,
>         proposing ideas or code, or explaining the rationale for the status quo.
>
>
>> A deliberating member who “insists on disapproving”, without proposing
>> alternative paths, wouldn’t meet these requirements.
>
> Yes and I think that already included in the paragraph above, no?

Yes, looks like it.

Ludo’.

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