<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">+1<div><br><div><div>On Mar 17, 2015, at 7:04 AM, Kotya Karapetyan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<div><br></div><div>I think we deviated from the original question quite a bit. The point was that the current number of votes proposed in the wiki for accepted/rejected decision was self-contradicting. Even if there may be different opinions on that, the very discussion shows that the situation is not clear.</div><div><br></div><div>I propose to clarify it by changing the recommended number of votes in <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features#Approved_or_rejected">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features#Approved_or_rejected</a></div><div>from "...<i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">8 unanimous approval votes</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px"> <i>or </i></span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">15 total votes with a majority approval...</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">"</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">to "<i>...8 or more </i></span><i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">unanimous approval votes</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px"> or </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">10 or more total votes with more than 74 % approval...</span></i><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">".</i></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">This will not change anything in terms of the ongoing discussion of <i>how</i> the approval influences other things. So the discussion can continue. But we'd introduce some mathematical logic in the process.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">I don't think there is a procedure to vote on such proposals, so please just give it +1 here if you agree. We change it when we have 8+ "plus ones" if there are no significant objections to <i>this</i> change. Once again, please note: we are not discussing the consequences of approval/rejection, we just change the rule of thumb recommendation to a mathematically more sound one.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:19.2000007629395px">Cheers,<br>Kotya</span></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>