Ge van Geldorp wrote:
In proposal B (no blocking power) the sentence "The TC has final say over the priority of a bug. By his election, the developers and board members have agreed to trust in his judgement related to bug priorities, and must not hinder any legitimate efforts that the TC is attempting in order to prioritize bugs." was dropped.
I agree with everything, including removing "The TC has final say over the priority of a bug." which caused all this, but is it really right to remove:
"By his election, the developers have agreed to trust in his judgement related to bug priorities"? It would seem to me like that's a given. It doesn't represent any grant of power, just states the obvious. We're voting for Foo as TC because we trust he'll be a good TC. Addtionally: "must not hinder any legitimate efforts that the TC is attempting in order to prioritize bugs." is also not an adtional grant of power, but simply specifies that if the TC thinks Bug XXX is low priority, a developer (i'm talking about one, not a majority) shouldn't constantly raise it back to BLOCKER just because he feels this is very important to him. I think this is also normal curteous behaviour... once again, I'm not saying that the TC's decision should be absolute, just that if the TC and ONE developer shouldn't have to go through priority wars (unless there is a majority). I hope this makes sense.. I'm waiting for your comments.
Best regards, Alex Ionescu