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Subject: Please read: Procedure proposal for ODF 1.2 proposals
Dear TC members, the deadline for requesting proposals for consideration in ODF 1.2 has passed. The consideration of 16 proposals has been requested. We have 6 TC members that requested the inclusion of at least one proposal, and the number of requests per TC members varies between 1 and 7. The assumption for the schedule we agreed in the last TC call was that we have 5 requests, and we agreed to make a decision how to proceed in the next call if the number of requests is above 5. We got 16 requests. We therefore need to decide now how to proceed. I have discussed the situation with Rob, and this what we would like to propose: 1) All TC members with voting rights (a list is below) have 5 votes that they can cast on any set of proposals. Voters can split their vote among 5 different proposals, put all their 5 votes on a single proposal, or divide them up in any way they choice, among the proposals listed. 2) This votes are cast by sending the vote allocations to the mailing list before the TC meeting on Monday. 3) The votes themselves are non-binding until the TC, in the meeting on Monday, the 15th of December, decides to give them a meaning. 4) In the meeting on Monday, the 15th of December, the TC votes to consider those 5 or 6 (or another number to be decided on) proposals for inclusion into ODF 1.2, that got the most votes. Note: Five is the number of proposals we worked with in the last TC call. Six is the number of TC members that have requested the consideration of a proposal. Taking six proposals would mean that at least in theory one proposal per TC member could be elected. We should be able to process six proposals without changing the schedule. Using this approach, everyone has equal voice in what proposals are processed. *While the TC needs to agree to give the votes described above a meaning, I would like to ask all voting TC members to cast their votes in order to make a good decision in the meeting on Monday.* Please note that the votes you are casting are not regarding the proposals itself, but only whether they should be considered for ODF 1.2. This means that the proposals that are considered for inclusion still need to pass the proposal acceptance process successfully, which is defined by our standing rule and the rules we agreed on the last TC call. Vice versa, if a proposal that is not elected for consideration in ODF 1.2, then this does not mean that the proposal itself is rejected, and TC members should not interpret the votes that way. If a proposal is not elected to be considered in ODF 1.2, then these proposals still should be considered for a later version of ODF, and I would like to encourage the TC members to advance such proposals to make sure they will be considered in the next ODF version. The following TC members have voting rights: Michael Brauer Patrick Durusau Dennis Hamilton Mingfei Jia Bob Jolliffe Jun Ma Doug Mahugh Eric Patterson Eike Rathke Florian Reuter Jomar Silva Rob Weir David Wheeler Oliver Wittmann Best regards Michael -- Michael Brauer, Technical Architect Software Engineering StarOffice/OpenOffice.org Sun Microsystems GmbH Nagelsweg 55 D-20097 Hamburg, Germany michael.brauer@sun.com http://sun.com/staroffice +49 40 23646 500 http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, D-85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht Muenchen: HRB 161028 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Thomas Schroeder, Wolfgang Engels, Dr. Roland Boemer Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Haering
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