[maemo-community] [Proposal] - Developers should get karma based on the relevance of their software

[From: Dave Neary]

Hi Randall,

Randall Arnold wrote:
> The way I see it the decisive process needs to be hierarchal, from the
> bottom up:
> 
> -Any member submits proposal (solution)
> -Rank and file + council + developers + Nokia employees/contractors
> discuss and vote
> -Council harvests input and narrows options
> -If council can reduce to obvious attainable solution(s), all are
> escalated to actionable party (Nokia, Reggie, council members, et al)
> for implementation
> -If council cannot reach a concrete decision, solution(s) escalated to
> actionable party or parties for ultimate decision (in most cases
> probably Nokia)
> 
> Does that sound like what we should be following?

A method which might work (better?) is this:
* Every question gets an owner (designated by council)
* That owner sollicits discussion and proposes a solution based on feedback
* The council and Nokia retain a veto, for reasons such as practicality,
the decision not reflecting consensus, or legal issues.
* In the event of no veto, the decision proposed by the owner is
implemented.

The idea of having one owner is to have one point of decision. This is
the de facto way it works anyway, except right now the owner is the
doer, rather than any council member or group.

Cheers,
Dave.

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