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Re: Collaborative decision making with Loomio



On 2018-07-27 10:46, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
On 15111 March 1977, Dmitry Smirnov wrote:
Loomio [1] is a powerful tool to organize decision making. We have a long standing RFP [2] for Loomio and I hope that with help of Ruby team it can be
packaged without too much effort.
It is not the tool here that is the problem. It is the people involved
that are. No matter being on a mailing list or loomio or
whatevermagictool, as long as people are unwilling to accept the other
sides and willing to find consensus, you can throw tools around as much
as you want. You wont get anywhere.

Or simply put:

You can't solve a social problem using technical means.

Yup, but to note: Consensus-driven arguments can only go so far and scale poorly with more people. Ultimately contentious issues need to be voted on, otherwise you can be held hostage by a single person or small vocal group.

Of course in Debian that mechanism is called GR or appealing to the tech-ctte and letting them vote (and then maybe another GR, hah).

Kind regards
Philipp Kern


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