100% agree. Voting should happen within 1 week of the proposal as per the rules. Votes not in by that time should be listed as NOVOTE, unless there are extenuating circumstances.
Proposals I've seen most certainly constitute quite a bit of time and thought, and we should honor the work that has been done by voting in a timely manner, and in effort to move things forwards in service to the project and our users.
To help, maybe the day before the vote closes the author could send a FINAL REMINDER style email out if there are still votes missing.
Thanks for bringing that up, Ted.
-C
Howdy PLC,
Personally I love the idea that anyone can propose a vote. But the issue comes in how that gets documented and closed. I've been trying to keep the archive of resolutions up-to-date. And I'm fine with that, but one thing that I haven't done is closed votes other folks have opened. I felt like that was overreach. As there is likely to be some discussion I have felt that it is possible the proposer would want to revoke and repropose based on that discussion and closing the vote was taking that option away. But, sometimes things get stuck.
Our FSA says that votes should generally be a week unless otherwise noted. So I think that we could just have that, unless otherwise noted, we assume it is exactly a week and I'm happy to clean up and close the vote. Or we could just add something to our standard template that is the date of closing. Or we could do nothing.
I don't know how we need to proceed on any decision there. But I wanted to bring up the issue and I wasn't sure if folks were aware of the assumptions I was working on.
Ted
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