From dc51f24ceae7510c4db7e81977578cf302119778 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Romulo Cintra Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2020 20:30:47 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/4] Create decision-process.md --- guidelines/decision-process.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 guidelines/decision-process.md diff --git a/guidelines/decision-process.md b/guidelines/decision-process.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8b1378917 --- /dev/null +++ b/guidelines/decision-process.md @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + From 9ce93838157cff839cf6f3d685e466a0f556d7ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dF Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 19:12:52 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 2/4] Draft decision process Strawman of the decision making process to be discussed in the meeting on 20th April 2020 --- guidelines/decision-process.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+) diff --git a/guidelines/decision-process.md b/guidelines/decision-process.md index 8b1378917..05fed1c52 100644 --- a/guidelines/decision-process.md +++ b/guidelines/decision-process.md @@ -1 +1,23 @@ +# Decision making process +## Preamble +The Chair Group discussion led to a consensus to start with a light weight consensus-based process that would eventually use voting as a last resort method in case of impasse.. The group could eventually be in need to defend its decision making process against trolls, yet at the moment all group members are considered in good faith, so the working group reserves the option to specify disciplinary actions against trolls as part of its guidelines at a later stage.. + +## Definitions +1. *Consensus* is defined as lack of sustained opposition. +2. *Good standing* is a characteristic of group members who fullfill their implicit and explicit obligations and hence are allowed to excercise all of their rights within the group without restriction. +3. *Blacklist* (*blacklisted*, *blacklisting*) is a taxative enumeration of group mebers who are temporarily excluded from excercising their rights within the group. +4. *Normative keywords* as defined in [BCP 14](https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp14) + +## Rules +1. Any current group member is deemed to be in good standing unless blacklisted. +2. Any group member in good standing MAY make a proposal to the group via + - raising an issue, + - PR (against the repo or wiki), or + - orally in a monthly group meeting. +3. Approval or rejection of proposed solutions and decisions SHOULD be driven by consensus. +4. Consensus MAY be reached as part of the PR or issue resolution process. +5. The monthly group meeting has the ultimate decision making authority. + - Chair Group or Chair don't have a decision making authority, see [chair-group.md](chair-group.md) and [chair-group-members.md](chair-group-members.md). +6. In case consensus cannot be found over multiple iterations of arguments and counter arguments, a monthly group meeting MAY reach consensus to mandate the Chair Group to organize a ballot among all group members in good standing. The ballot wording, options, and success criteria SHOULD be explicitely defined in a monthly meeting. The Chair Group only administers and implements the ballot and its results. +7. Blacklisting procedure is TBD by monthly meeting consensus if and when needed. From 0a7aff883154f274cac2ec1477c3c4400cc2dbe9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dF Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 17:40:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 3/4] Update guidelines/decision-process.md typos Co-Authored-By: Romulo Cintra --- guidelines/decision-process.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/guidelines/decision-process.md b/guidelines/decision-process.md index 05fed1c52..6fed513cc 100644 --- a/guidelines/decision-process.md +++ b/guidelines/decision-process.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ The Chair Group discussion led to a consensus to start with a light weight conse ## Definitions 1. *Consensus* is defined as lack of sustained opposition. 2. *Good standing* is a characteristic of group members who fullfill their implicit and explicit obligations and hence are allowed to excercise all of their rights within the group without restriction. -3. *Blacklist* (*blacklisted*, *blacklisting*) is a taxative enumeration of group mebers who are temporarily excluded from excercising their rights within the group. +3. *Blacklist* (*blacklisted*, *blacklisting*) is a taxative enumeration of group members who are temporarily excluded from exercising their rights within the group. 4. *Normative keywords* as defined in [BCP 14](https://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp14) ## Rules From 6b94cb2a46b33b3a92a594acdd22f398117b8c0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dF Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 19:20:51 +0100 Subject: [PATCH 4/4] Removing Preamble Per consensus of the 18th April monthly meeting. --- guidelines/decision-process.md | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/guidelines/decision-process.md b/guidelines/decision-process.md index 6fed513cc..2716b155b 100644 --- a/guidelines/decision-process.md +++ b/guidelines/decision-process.md @@ -1,7 +1,5 @@ # Decision making process -## Preamble -The Chair Group discussion led to a consensus to start with a light weight consensus-based process that would eventually use voting as a last resort method in case of impasse.. The group could eventually be in need to defend its decision making process against trolls, yet at the moment all group members are considered in good faith, so the working group reserves the option to specify disciplinary actions against trolls as part of its guidelines at a later stage.. ## Definitions 1. *Consensus* is defined as lack of sustained opposition.