[csw-maintainers] Call for vote for increasing the limit of packages name

[Peter FELECAN]

Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Do you, as an active foundation maintainer, agree to relive the current
>> limit of packages name from the current 20 characters to the 32
>> characters defined by the current packaging system?
>>
>> Please vote on this issue not later than November 8th, 2010.
>>

Alright, here starts the noise again.

> the mailing list is not a voting mechanism.

Why?

> Please set up your call for a vote in a more appropriate place, and
> give a url reference, at the proper time.
> (you might use one of the free voting thingies we've used in the past,
> but I dont recall the name right now)
> (or, request that "the board", or anyone else you wish, set one up.
> I'll remind you that the official OpenCSW "secretary" is Dagobert)

No need to set up something else.

> Also, it is not appropriate to have the vote, until the timeperiod for
> request for comments to our users has happened. As I emailed the list
> today, an abbreviated timeperiod of 2 weeks seems appropriate.
> Normally, for something globally affecting every single thing we do,
> I'd suggest 4 weeks, but since I'm actually in favor of the change and
> think it will pass without opposition, I'm okay with the shorter
> period of 2 weeks.
>
>
> So the timeperiod involved, would be better stated as
> "No SOONER than november 14th, but not later than (november 21st?)"

Consulting the users on an internal issue is ridiculous as it was said
before.

Please don't pollute this thread. Let the foundation maintainers vote.
-- 
Peter