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Add note about how testing for agreement is not the same as voting.
Add that quorum is required for a vote by default.
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The Issue may spread into a GitHub Discussion for considering and discussing multiple proposals, allowing for threaded replies. The Discussion and Issue must be clearly linked.
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The opening comment of the Issue should be kept up to date as to the status of a decision.
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The "Test for agreement" step is not voting, and is in stead asking for "signals", which enable the consensus process to continue.
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Voting should be considered a last resort if the consensus process has failed for a particular issue, to enable the project to move forward.
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Any call for public TSC votes will be made by creating an Issue in the community repo with the tsc-vote label assigned. The Issue should use the provided template.
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--? Should public votes go in the community repo or a new TSC repo?--
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Once an Issue gains the label tsc-vote, all members of the TSC will be notified via a specific Slack channel (and by any additional method the TSC deems helpful). The votes will be collected by way of using GitHub Reactions on a specific comment, which must not be the first comment. The first comment must link to the voting comment in the same Issue.
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Voting will by default close after 7 days. Any member of the TSC may request a 7 day extension for any reason, moving the closing date back by 7 days. Any member of the TSC may request additional extensions, approved at the discretion of any TSC chair.
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For a vote to carry, a quorum of 75% is required by default.
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If a TSC member wants to call for a vote that they wish to be non-public, they must do so by contacting the TSC Chairs directly.
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At the discretion of the TSC Chairs, a vote may made non-public, and will then be handled by creating a Discussion in the orgs TSC Team page (?-- Or should this be an Issue in a private repo? That might be preferable as they can then be closed--). The topic and nature of non-public votes may remain non-public, including the results.(It is expected that vast majority of votes will be public. Non-public voting should only be used in exceptional circumstances.)
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This work is a derivative of the [WebdriverIO Project Governance Model](https://github.com/webdriverio/webdriverio/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md).
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Inspired by https://seedsforchange.org.uk/consensus
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Informed by https://www.ic.org/busting-the-myth-that-consensus-with-unanimity-is-good-for-communities/
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This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/uk/).

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