Thread:What is the approval process we should use? (1)

This is the process I'm imagining:
 * 1) 30 days of active discussion
 * 2) *This doesn't mean 30 days from the point of the first rationale, instead, a facilitator would have to make a judgement call about when the active discussion began
 * 3) *It should be noted on the proposal's page, and on the proposed guidelines list, when the active discussion began and when it will open up for approval
 * 4) *Perhaps the time bit could be replaced with, or supplemented with a minimum number of discussion participants.
 * 5) Users voice their approval or disapproval
 * 6) *The range of votes would be:
 * 7) **Approve - The user approves of the guideline the way it is
 * 8) **Conditional - The user approves of the guideline on a condition that must be met. These should be addressed by facilitators, and a good attempt must be made to meet the conditions within reason.  When the conditions are met, the user should replace their conditional vote with an approval vote
 * 9) **Disapprove - The user doesn't think this guideline is at all necessary.
 * 10) *A collection of templates would be used that I can quickly whip up that put headers on the proposal page explaining what each vote means, and the individual vote templates would include a signature and possible explanation.
 * 11) *It needs to be determined how many approvals there must be, and what percentage of the total votes must be approvals before going on to the next step.
 * 12) Here would be a place to put in a Community Council step, if we feel that is necessary.
 * 13) The guideline gets added to the official document.