From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 20:41:16 GMT
Subject: Re: Gui criticism
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In-Reply-To: <94a0d4530912051225y2d193a1fqfb38ebcce95719c3@mail.gmail.com>

Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, the main action to do in this system should be "vote", that's
> the action that should be fast.

Actually I do not think you would want that, especially as a moderator (I
am assuming that you would be self-appointing to be one).  What will you
do to help a "broad, vague, and infeasible idea" forward when it gets many
votes?

That is why I prefer a system that requires substance when voicing an
opinion ("Yes I like the solution because in addition to the original
problem description it will also help this use case"), and it also is the
reason I tend to ignore e-mails that only say "+1" on this list.

In other words, this is not a democracy, and you do not necessarily want a
democracy that is prone to populism.