As a related sensitive issue. Who got vote rights.
The producingoss page on that topic makes good suggestions:
http://producingoss.com/en/consensus-democracy.html#electorate
Applied to Whonix, here is my hopefully sensible proposal:
- Whonix team gets initial vote rights. (Current members are listed on the https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Authorship. [That page needs to be made more pretty, perhaps split.])
- We create a private mailing list which every Whonix team member can use to suggest new team members.
- We try to suggest only obvious candidates. Do-ocrats.
- Using that list, we secretly try to find to find consensus on the proposal?
- Maybe if the Whonix team was bigger, and consensus on adding new people is no longer possible, we could do a 65% [or X %] rule. Plus eventually let vetos stop it? This is sensitive. Rules need to be adjusted to the current state of things. And there is no infallible solution that survives any hypothetic cases we can think off. I guess normal discussion would suffice for current state of things.
- If the answer is yes, we ask the proposed person [in private or in public?].
- If the answer is no, we keep it secret to avoid offending the proposed person.
- That private mailing list does not need to be a mailman list for now. Adding the involved people to a huge CC mail exchange would suffice?
- Others interested to join the Whonix team that got no invitation could still [privately] point out “hey, I am doing lots of stuff over a long periods, I am interested to join the Whonix team”. Ideally we’re proactive for that not to happen.