[AFS3-std] AFS Standardization Proposal

[Simon Wilkinson]

On 24 Jul 2008, at 19:46, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
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>> Steve "just establishing my participation quota" Simmons
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> Under my original proposal, you're not, because this is a meta- 
> discussion, not a technical one.

And therein lies the problem, as far as I can see. Someone has to  
determine what counts as a 'contribution'. That ends up with that  
person wielding a lot of power. Given the chairs don't have anyone  
above them (remember, we're by design not part of the OpenAFS  
Foundation for management purposes), it's hard to see where an appeal  
against abuse that power would go (other than to a recall, but the  
success or failure of that is very dependent on the list of available  
voters too) Personally, I'd rather minimise as far as possible  
subjectivity in the voting procedure.

There is, however, one flaw with the 'list member for x weeks'  
eligibility - when we do recalls, the required number of votes is  
based on the total list membership. We need to ensure that broken  
email addresses are regularly culled from the list.

S.