[Foundation-l] Stewards elections

Sat Mar 5 14:51:57 UTC 2005

Aphaia was also interested I think, and a bunch of
editors who wrote me privately in the past months.
Also one on irc, but I do not remember his name. I
fear trying to find back their mails in the hundred I
receive each month :-)

Though I do not like elections as well, I think we do
not need to deploy an election thing the size of
national elections of a president...

As I already said to you 3 weeks ago, I am not so
supportive of you nominating these people without
community feedback. Currently, just as sysops,
stewards are people who were at some point trusted by
the community to carry out the wishes of the
community. It is strange to me that this change.

But if you want to do it this way, do it this way.

PS : though it is only a technical position, I fear it
holds a serious political weight :-) And the issue of
trust are certainly not minimal at all.

RePS : Danny decided to quit Wikipedia (according to
his page temporarily - well, I hope) because of
something I told him after he wrote his comment to
this list. I apology to him since I did not want to
hurt him in any way.

Greetings

Ant

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I see three candidates for Steward in this thread so
far:
Yann, waerth, Danny.

Why don't I just make them all 3 stewards and we are
done with it?

Those three are in irc all the time, and live in
diverse parts of the
globe (France, New York USA, Thailand) so they add
good time-of-day
diversity.

Stewards don't decide things, they carry out the
wishes of the
community.  Therefore the issues of trust are quite
minimal anyway,
and all three of those are stellar community members
with excellent
reputations.

Having big public elections for everything is a bad
idea.  People will
not be elected unless they are famous, but the way to
get famous is not
the same thing as the way to be qualified for a
technical position.

Imagine if we elected our developers for example...

--Jimbo

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