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| 149 | <a name="Decision Making"> |
| 150 | <h1>Decision Making</h1> |
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| 152 | <p> |
| 153 | The .tel developer community is an open and informal environment. |
| 154 | We make our decisions in a public manner, via the forum. Every |
| 155 | Contributor is very welcome to participate |
| 156 | in the discussions, and we value well-argued opinions most. |
| 157 | </p> |
| 158 | <p>As the project matures, we hope to promote enough active |
| 159 | contributors into committers to hold a committers' vote on the most |
| 160 | vital decisions, such as release dates, package promotions and critical |
| 161 | features for given applications. |
| 162 | </p> |
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| 164 | <p>Here's a simple convention on the voting format that we suggest everybody follows:</p> |
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| 167 | <li> |
| 168 | <b>+1</b> is a positive vote.</li> |
| 169 | <li> |
| 170 | <b>+/-0</b> means you abstain or have no opinion. |
| 171 | This vote makes little sense, because you appear to have no opinion. However, |
| 172 | too many abstaining committers and contributors means the discussed matter |
| 173 | needs more investigation, so the vote will be postponed. </li> |
| 174 | <li> |
| 175 | <b>-1</b> is a negative vote.</li> |
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| 177 | <p>When voting, please provide arguments or concerns, especially in the case of a zero or |
| 178 | negative vote. This would help us understand your point of view.</p> |
| 179 | <a name="When do we vote?"> |
| 180 | <h2>When do we vote?</h2> |
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| 182 | <p>Any decision we vote for has an impact on our community, for example: </p> |
| 183 | <ul> |
| 184 | <li> Long-term engagement by a developer or a group of developers to implement certain functionality, such |
| 185 | as a new application or a ported version of an existing plug-in.</li> |
| 186 | <li> SS (showstopper) bug that stops all other development until this issue is fixed. A rollout |
| 187 | of a new updated version with the SS bug fix is expected. </li> |
| 188 | <li> Release coordination announcements with plans for releasing a new version of an application, |
| 189 | promoting a build to an official 'release version' status, or merging a branch containing experimental |
| 190 | code with the SVN trunk. <br/> |
| 191 | Of course, we are an open-source community, and our planning capacity is limited, but let's try |
| 192 | to be organized and avoid disappointing our customers. </li> |
| 193 | <li>Offering the committer status to a contributor. In this case, only committers have a binding vote.</li> |
| 194 | </ul> |
| 195 | <p>Based on the results of a vote, |
| 196 | a responsible committer publishes an announcement to the forum, |
| 197 | which is also propagated to the mailing list newsletter and the news RSS feed. </p> |
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