Community voting vs. Meritocracy

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Dienstag, den 24.09.2013, 13:12 +0000 schrieb "Jóhann B.
Guðmundsson":
> On 09/24/2013 01:02 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > I don't mean to say that the voting app can't or shouldn't be used for
> > anything else; it's fine to use it for other specific things where it makes
> > sense, but we shouldn't start straw-polling on one-off arbitrary issues.
> 
> I hardly call settling the long outstanding community issue of reporters 
> working directly upstream ( which many upstream wants ) or strictly 
> downstream ( which reporters wants ) is arbitrary issue...
> 
> So we have both community voice up and vote once the feedback has been 
> gathered and summarized and the result from that we will be working 
> towards bettering in the next 5 to 10 years

I don't think this is something we can vote about. The question is not
what most people want but what makes most sense.

A vote does not make sense anyway: Most of the reporters no Fedora
Project members and therefor not entitled to vote. If we agreed on
something, we have no mandate to enforce it.

Meritocracy is one of the reasons I spend my time on Fedora and not on
Debian. I don't want to run in circles before introducing say systemd, I
want the smart people to go ahead and I trust them to make things
happen. That's the Fedora way, let's please stick to it.

Amen,
Christoph