Conflict solving and maintainer

[Ian Monroe]

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Thorsten Zachmann <t.zachmann at zagge.de> wrote:
> On Monday, December 06, 2010 09:17:58 Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think we all want to avoid what have happened (ie the split) to happen
>> again, we have been discussing election for maintainers. Various ideas have
>> been discussed. But many have point out that it would add layers of
>> bureaucracy, and we would not be able to make a system that is future
>> proof.
>>
>> So here is my suggestion, if a personnal conflict happen (technical would
>> sill be handle by the WMC), that the community is not able to solve, the
>> case is presented to the Community Working Group, that would have full
>> authority to propose solution, including electing a new maintainer, or ask
>> someone to stay away.
>
> How about if something like that happens again it gets broght up and then
> there will be a vote by the community to descide on what should be done.

Coming up with rules in an ad-hoc fashion could be messy.

Just having all maintainers be elected all the time seems like a
better solution, with the understanding that 99% of the time the
elections should be un-challenged (so usually no vote will take
place).

You could decide on the 'citizens' of Calligra by just drawing up a
list of current members, and then having a process to add new ones.
This is what Amarok does.

Ian