Decision making process - Introduction and Implementation

[Ludee]

The Open Energy Database (oedb), part of the Open Energy Platform (oep) is now used by two projects (open_eGo and open_FRED). Some important parts of the concept were discussed in the open_eGo project team and then implemented. After using the database a lot some issues came up that could/should be changed for the following projects.

In order to ensure a transparent and open way of making and documenting decisions we defined a decision making process that is shown in the graphic.
2016_12_05_decision_making.pdf

First decision is a decision if and how we use the decision making. We solve the chicken-egg-situation and can test the application on a real example. Feel free to comment on everything!

Question/Proposal/Decision Title:
We implement a decision making process as shown in the graphic to manage the oep and oedb!

Deadline:
9.12.2016 14:00 for the discussion

Documentation:
In the openmod-Wiki

Constraints/Participants:
All active open_eGo and open_FRED team members must participate.
At least 3 other active openmod members must participate.

[Ludee]

More people have to be invited to the openmod-initative group in order to start the decision making for the openmod Platform.

I can't invite people because I'm just a member and not an owner.
How do we handle ownership and invitations for the openmod. Looks like an other decision we can start here.
@ingmars
@JCRichstein
@nworbmot
@sjpfenninger

[ulfmueller]

It generally seems to be an adequate way to decide on topics.
I wonder if the process is flexible enough for e.g. discussing and/or deciding in a webconference (the information of the whereabouts of course would have to be transparently reported in an issue beforehand as well as afterwards)?

[Ludee]

we had nice feedback on the oemof developer day here in Berlin about the flexibility of the process.
Some decisions may need the time and a discussion while others (eg coding) needs to be faster and two weeks waiting for nobody responding is definitely not working!

The idea was to also have a fast process with an direct implementation and a two weeks veto/discussion.
The focus is on the implementation and easy handling right now.

For webcos and meetings we can make a template to document the decisions and also add the options for a veto for everybody that wasn't there. What do you think about that?