[VOTE] commit access for Rui Salvaterra

[Rich Brown]

I agree with Fernando and Paul. Rule 4 of the OpenWrt Rules (https://openwrt.org/rules) states that someone who's unreachable for three months SHALL have their commit/voting rights revoked. 

I don't think we need to be that heavy-handed, but these frequent decisions are critical for keeping OpenWrt going. I really appreciate the "voting start date" pages that people maintain to track the votes (https://openwrt.org/voting/start).

For example, the vote for Rui has been open for a month (90% positive, two abstainers) but only 57% participation. That's too long for this kind of decision.

As we discussed several months back, if you don't have any opinion, it's OK to abstain. Or you can cast a vote relying on the judgement of others who you trust. And if you truly cannot decide, you need to become part of the conversation so you get the information you need. 

But the OpenWrt Rules make it clear that it's your responsibility to participate. These formal "call for votes" are just as important to OpenWrt as checking in any piece of code.

Thanks for listening.

Rich

> On Aug 26, 2021, at 8:29 AM, Fernando Frediani <fhfrediani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> I second Paul's request that if people don't feel like staying a team member and participating in these votes, to respond so of status changed this way majority votes don't result in awkward counts where decisions are made with a 51% majority simplify because 49% of member don't care to respond.
> This is fairly important for organization proposes and for the healthy survival of the project and why was discussed during the last discussion to change the project rules to keep point number 4 as it is.
> 
> Regards
> Fernando
> 
> Em 25/08/2021 23:33, Daniel Golle escreveu:
>> Hi Rui,
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> 
>> more than a month has passed since the call to vote up to now 20
>> out of 35 project members have participated.
>> 
>> 18 voted in favor of granting commit access to Rui (option A)
>> 2 voted neutral
>> nobody voted for the options B or C
>> 
>> Sadly that's only a 57% participation rate.
>> 
>> However, as by now 51% of all project members have voted in favor,
>> further votes can no longer change the result and we can officially
>> welcome Rui as a project member!
>> 
>> I've written up a summary about the voting process:
>> https://openwrt.org/voting/2021-07-21
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Aug 20, 2021 at 11:31:13PM -1000, Paul Spooren wrote:
>>> It's been a month and still half of the OpenWrt team members did not
>>> respond, please do so in a week or this vote should be considered approved,
>>> since everyone who participated approved Rui except one person without an
>>> opinion on the matter.
>>> 
>>> Please respond at least with a *no opinion* email so it's clear the
>>> remaining members are aware of this vote. This option could be more visible
>>> in future votes.
>>> 
>>> If people don't feel like staying a team member and participating in these
>>> votes, e.g. due to shift of interest or time, please respond so and your
>>> status can be changed to *previous member*, this way majority votes don't
>>> result in awkward counts where decisions are made with a 51% majority
>>> simplify because 49% of member don't care to respond.
>>> 
>>> Sunshine,
>>> Paul
>>> 
>>> On 7/20/21 23:13, Daniel Golle wrote:
>>>> Hi everyone!
>>>> 
>>>> I think we should give commit access to Rui Salvaterra.
>>>> He has contributed a lot of very clean patches in the past year,
>>>> demonstrated great knowledge of OpenWrt, networking hard- and software,
>>>> and UNIX in general. I strongly believe that he will deal responsibly
>>>> with the priviledge of having write access to our repository and
>>>> together we'll be able to make OpenWrt even better :)
>>>> 
>>>> Hence, please select from the options below:
>>>> 
>>>> A [ ] give commit access to Rui Salvaterra
>>>> 
>>>> B [ ] not just yet, give it some more time
>>>> 
>>>> C [ ] don't ever even ask about that again
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for participating in the voting!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Daniel
>>>> 
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