Re: Political policymaking
'Paul J Thompson wrote:'
>
>> > If amendments interact with each other then the different plausible
>> > alternatives are put to the vote together using Single Transferrable
>> > Vote.
>>
>> This is about where I start falling asleep.
>>
>> It's an awful lot of mechanism you are proposing, and I strongly doubt
>> it is all that necessary. I'd like to hear from other developers on that.
>>
>> Bruce
>
>I would have to say that I agree with Ian entirely here. I think that Debian
>becoming more organized would do alot for our "productivity". Alot of things
>get thrown about witgh nothing getting done sometimes ( _sometimes_ ). I
>think a more organized voting and ammending process would be a good start to
>this.
I prefer Bruce's analysis. I give Ian an A+ for effort, but he's
solving the wrong problem. I think we need more facile email facilities.
But that is a long-term design project I'm dreaming about.... I really
don't think breaking up mailing lists is adequate in any way.... And
clumsy voting infrastructure in (multiple?) mailing lists sounds like a
mess to me. But who knows. It might be interesting to give it try ...
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