2009/11/16 Jose <jmalv04@gmail.com>:
I realize that there is no mention to the word "vote" in the review policy, just "review comments". See message below for rationale on why these may be good changes.
I strongly dislike the idea of "voting" and a correspondingly purely objective acceptance criterion, since then you have to define whether someone is permitted to vote, which is necessarily exclusive. I'd be far more interested in a 2-stage process where there's a limited review for whether something is usable, at which point is gets into the official distribution, but under a "proposed" subdirectory. These might not be the optimal implementations or interfaces, nor would they need to be at all orthogonal. A later review like the current would then decide whether it's the correct form for the functionality, at which point it would be promoted.