Opinions needed - Past board referendums - online?
Hi all,
I've been collecting our board votes into a private gitlab repository:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape-board/documents
Currently, this is not accessible to the general public, just members of the inkscape-board team. You all should be able to look at what's there.
My question is if we should make the past referendums publically visible (for increased public transparency) or keep them as private? (Or something else?)
There are sometimes cases where we want to share the details about a referendum with various people. However, I'm not sure whether or not it is desireable to have our actual votes public. Also, occasionally we vote on things (e.g. trademark issues) that we don't want public.
What do you guys think? Is there value in making past referendums publically visible? If so, should we show or hide our votes? And should we include mechanisms to filter public vs. private votes from being visible? Or just keep everything private?
Bryce
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 18:43 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Hi all,
I've been collecting our board votes into a private gitlab repository:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape-board/documents
Currently, this is not accessible to the general public, just members of the inkscape-board team. You all should be able to look at what's there.
My question is if we should make the past referendums publically visible (for increased public transparency) or keep them as private? (Or something else?)
There are sometimes cases where we want to share the details about a referendum with various people. However, I'm not sure whether or not it is desireable to have our actual votes public. Also, occasionally we vote on things (e.g. trademark issues) that we don't want public.
What do you guys think? Is there value in making past referendums publically visible? If so, should we show or hide our votes? And should we include mechanisms to filter public vs. private votes from being visible? Or just keep everything private?
If we use "Confidential" inkscape-board/documents project issues; then we could use that as a 'live' voting board. I.e. A place to create the vote and do the voting (or just record the voting if that doesn't work). Resolving the issue is a matter of recording the vote result into the archive (git commit can close a bug report for example), which I think should always be public as a matter of policy.
If an issue has to be kept dark for a while, then it remains unresolved until it's committed to the public archive. Letting us know what our opacity is.
But this depends
Martin,
So, my feeling is that we should keep it the way that it is. I think having a consistent repository is useful, and for transparency since all public votes are already on the mailing list that information is there. We're really on effecting people who'd want to make tools based on those votes, which I'd argue is a non-existant minority.
Ted On Apr 24 2019, at 6:43 pm, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> wrote:
Hi all,
I've been collecting our board votes into a private gitlab repository: https://gitlab.com/inkscape-board/documents Currently, this is not accessible to the general public, just members of the inkscape-board team. You all should be able to look at what's there.
My question is if we should make the past referendums publically visible (for increased public transparency) or keep them as private? (Or something else?)
There are sometimes cases where we want to share the details about a referendum with various people. However, I'm not sure whether or not it is desireable to have our actual votes public. Also, occasionally we vote on things (e.g. trademark issues) that we don't want public.
What do you guys think? Is there value in making past referendums publically visible? If so, should we show or hide our votes? And should we include mechanisms to filter public vs. private votes from being visible? Or just keep everything private?
Bryce
Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, 21:18 Ted Gould, <ted@...1...> wrote:
So, my feeling is that we should keep it the way that it is. I think having a consistent repository is useful, and for transparency since all public votes are already on the mailing list that information is there. We're really on effecting people who'd want to make tools based on those votes, which I'd argue is a non-existant minority.
+1 -C
Ted On Apr 24 2019, at 6:43 pm, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> wrote:
Hi all,
I've been collecting our board votes into a private gitlab repository:
https://gitlab.com/inkscape-board/documents
Currently, this is not accessible to the general public, just members of the inkscape-board team. You all should be able to look at what's there.
My question is if we should make the past referendums publically visible (for increased public transparency) or keep them as private? (Or something else?)
There are sometimes cases where we want to share the details about a referendum with various people. However, I'm not sure whether or not it is desireable to have our actual votes public. Also, occasionally we vote on things (e.g. trademark issues) that we don't want public.
What do you guys think? Is there value in making past referendums publically visible? If so, should we show or hide our votes? And should we include mechanisms to filter public vs. private votes from being visible? Or just keep everything private?
Bryce
Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
Alright, sounds good.
Good point that the votes are in the public archives already. I may try posting those online in a way that's easier for folks to browse.
Thanks Bryce
On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 02:18:25PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
So, my feeling is that we should keep it the way that it is. I think having a consistent repository is useful, and for transparency since all public votes are already on the mailing list that information is there. We're really on effecting people who'd want to make tools based on those votes, which I'd argue is a non-existant minority.
Ted On Apr 24 2019, at 6:43 pm, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> wrote:
Hi all,
I've been collecting our board votes into a private gitlab repository: https://gitlab.com/inkscape-board/documents Currently, this is not accessible to the general public, just members of the inkscape-board team. You all should be able to look at what's there.
My question is if we should make the past referendums publically visible (for increased public transparency) or keep them as private? (Or something else?)
There are sometimes cases where we want to share the details about a referendum with various people. However, I'm not sure whether or not it is desireable to have our actual votes public. Also, occasionally we vote on things (e.g. trademark issues) that we don't want public.
What do you guys think? Is there value in making past referendums publically visible? If so, should we show or hide our votes? And should we include mechanisms to filter public vs. private votes from being visible? Or just keep everything private?
Bryce
Inkscape-board mailing list Inkscape-board@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
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