1. Re: voting on GOTO [OT]
Chris Bensler wrote:
>
> Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> >
> > Greg Haberek wrote:
> > >
> > > > What is the criteria for accepting a "feature"?
> > >
> > > It must be generally accepted by the active development community. Votes
> > > should
> > > be based on seniority, which in turn is based on previous contributions to
> > > the
> > > product and level of competence in using it.
> > >
> >
> > That sounds OK, however, I think it's beyond realistic implementation. You
> > also
> > have many issues with basing things of seniority. For instance, Jim has been
> > a Euphoria programmer since 1921 and he absolutely hates this new idea of a
> > while loop. The good old goto can do a while loop, a for loop and any other
> > loop you may dream up in your wild, young mind. In the mean time Josh and
> > Jack
> > leave the Euphoria scene because they are tired of Jim's old ways. Now there
> > is a huge gap between Jim's seniority and everyone else.
> >
> > Different voting systems have been tested high and low. All have problems.
> > What's
> > the best? I don't know.
> >
>
> I would suggest allowing the community to nominate and delegate a certain
> number
> of votes to particular, trusted and competent people. Such as those of you on
> the dev-team, and robert craig.
>
> In this way, people will earn the weight of their votes.
> The number of votes that can be exercised by all the delegates should be
> relative
> to how many votes are submitted by the community at large. Say 51% so that
> they
> could have majority.
>
> For example, if delegates hold a total of 30 votes with a tally of 20 to 10
> in favor, that is 67% of delegates in favor. Factoring for 51% voting control,
> this works out to 34% of all total votes in favor.
>
> Only 10 votes are submitted by the community with a tally of 6 to 4 against.
> This is 60% of community votes against. Given 49% control, this works out to
>
> 29% against.
>
> I would also suggest a minimum quorum be required. So if there is not enough
> votes from delegates, or from the community, or in total, then the poll would
> be forfiet due to lack of interest/participation.
>
>
> Chris Bensler
> Code is Alchemy
If we were hundreds or thousands, this aproach would make sense.But are we that
many?
CChris
