Discussion on voting systems

[Bart Cerneels]

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Nikolaj Hald Nielsen
<nhnfreespirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> My main concern with the bonus vote scheme is that
> months_of_active_contribution  is damn hard to calculate. Some people
> have been with the project forever but has hardly contributed anything
> recently, some have come and gone and so on.
>
> I personally think that a simple system with 1 vote per person should
> work. The people with most seniority will always have the greatest say
> in the direction of development, but being a long time developer does
> not automatically make you the best person to manage funds and such.
>
I see no reason for a complicated voting system. And agree with
Nikolaj that senior contributers have other ways of making their mark.