Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Thank you very much for explanations.
I fully agree your long term view and hope we will be able to reach it a day.
But I still don't understand why the vote for "stewards" occurs before the community decide theirs roles? If you really need temporary "stewards" to remove developers "power" as soon as possible, so create temporary rules (we can change it after). Personally I can't vote without knowing witch skill will be required for "stewards".
That was my silly fault. I had intended to work in two phases: first nominations and discussion, then only after the nominations were all in and the issues sorted out, voting. I failed to make this clear on the meta page. The proposal was advertised as a vote on the English Wikipedia and before I realised what was going on, the page had votes all over it. I probably should have deleted everyone's votes at that stage and written large-type messages everywhere prohibiting voting, but you know me.
-- Tim Starling