[Compcomm] Deciding a name

[RYX]

I am still very much against having a deadline of five days for coming
up with good names. It is just ridiculous to spend weeks with having
polls and try to get the actual work done in a few days.

Can at least ONE of you explain to me why we are in such a hurry?
Especially now that the important devs have agreed to first release
packages as "compcomm-*" there should be no need for rushing things ...

I get the feeling that there are very few people wanting all this
anymore. The best way would be to close down opencompositing.org and
move back to compiz.org. This all is such a mess and getting worse day
by day. That's the direct result of letting anyone make press releases
or official statements long before a decision has been made.

Rico

Am Donnerstag, den 14.06.2007, 20:11 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Laramie:
> OK, here is my revised proposal for a name selection process:
> 
> - Create a Nominating Committee of 3-5 members who will have the
> responsibility of compiling the list of the qualified names. Onestone has 
> agreed to serve on this committee. RYX and Kristian have expressed interest 
> in this process and I'd like to invite them to serve as well. It would be 
> good to have some more volunteers who are able to keep an open mind.
> 
> - The Nominating Committee will accept nominations for up to 10 names. The 
> nominating period will be for 5 days or until 5 names have been qualified and 
> endorsed by the Nominating Committee. It will take a majority vote of the 
> Nominating Committee to endorse a name.
> 
> - We will start a new thread on this mailing list and another on the 
> opencompositing.org forum for people to propose names. Each submitted name 
> *must* have the following information to be considered by the Nominating 
> Committee:
>  	- Name
>  	- Available domain names
>  	- At least one logo idea. This can be a written idea.
>  	- Perform a web search and list the top 3 conflicts, if any.
>  	- A brief description of what the name means and why we should use it.
>  	- A brief description of any known negative connotations or meanings.
> 
> - Once the Nominating Committee has 5-10 qualified names, there will be a poll 
> of the 10 names which will last 3 days. The winner must have *majority* of 
> all votes to win. If no choice receives a majority, then the bottom 6 choices 
> will be dropped, and we'll conduct another 3 day poll. If no choice receives 
> a majority in the 2nd poll, then the bottom 2 choices will be dropped and the 
> last 2 choices will make it to the final 3 day poll. If there are less than 10 
> names nominated, the bottom 50% would be dropped in each poll.
> 
> - The polling threads will be locked but discussion will be allowed on other 
> threads throughout the process.
> 
> If this is acceptable, tomorrow I'll draft an official announcement for our 
> forums and websites so that everyone is included in the process.
> 
> Jeff
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