On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 11:59 AM Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Andreas Enge <[email protected]> skribis: > > > What is a bit unclear in consensus finding is what happens if someone > > deliberately sabotages the process; this has not happened so far, but > > could be the case some day. > > This possibility was discussed at length when we designed the GCD > process¹. > > We’re making a bet with this process, which has worked so far: we’re > assuming people act in good faith and that someone who dislikes a > proposal will constructively come up with a counter-proposal. > > It’s both ambitious and in fact very common in our day-to-day decision > making.
It isn't just the GCD process, our GNU Guix community is high-trust. Much of the novelty in GCD007 seems to be an attempt to prevent low-trust actions. The counter-proposal here is to carry on since we have yet to see identified any issues fixed or mitigated by this proposal. Greg
