> it's sort of preposterous to think that all votes are equal.
Sorry if this wasn't clear, but I think there should be different classes of users, with different powers.
No, your vote should not have the same power as someone who has carefully maintained Python for years.
But if there are nine peers, maybe they would like a bit of automation to help them
1) triage bugs
2) vote on actions
3) take those actions automatically based on the result of voting
> It's just impractical to have everybody vote directly on every single decision.
Different parts of code could have different protections.
Want to update the docs? Go for it! If we hate your changes, we'll just revert them.
Want to change the implementation of memcpy? Uh, you're going to get lots of reviews.
> government
How should a city government keep track of its artifacts? The documents it produces that have the authority of their office? Revisions to those documents? Approval over those revisions?
I'm saying technology might make their jobs simpler.
Sorry if this wasn't clear, but I think there should be different classes of users, with different powers.
If we're going to choose a class of privileged users to enact policies on our behalf, sounds like we'd wind up with something like a representative democracy anyway.
Sorry if this wasn't clear, but I think there should be different classes of users, with different powers.
No, your vote should not have the same power as someone who has carefully maintained Python for years.
But if there are nine peers, maybe they would like a bit of automation to help them
1) triage bugs
2) vote on actions
3) take those actions automatically based on the result of voting
> It's just impractical to have everybody vote directly on every single decision.
Different parts of code could have different protections.
Want to update the docs? Go for it! If we hate your changes, we'll just revert them.
Want to change the implementation of memcpy? Uh, you're going to get lots of reviews.
> government
How should a city government keep track of its artifacts? The documents it produces that have the authority of their office? Revisions to those documents? Approval over those revisions?
I'm saying technology might make their jobs simpler.