On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 08:59:38AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I am wondering what value do these suddenly burgeoning votes > have? FWIW, I'm also a little troubled by the plethora of votes. I quite like that Debian generally just lets the people who are interested and motivated do their stuff, and doesn't let pointless procedures and paper shuffling and pedantic argument get in the way of making a good system. Or tries to, or used to, or whatever. Instead it seems that at the moment we're having a vote for every trivial thing we can think of, which wastes two weeks for no good reason --- if there *was* a good reason, that is conflicting opinions, then resolving that by discussion as much as possible, and seeing what transpires is proper. Saying "I want this." "I don't" "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Let's vote." just isn't all that enlightening. Maybe it would be helpful if the vote pages included one or more rationales for each option on the vote page, rather than leaving them hidden in the list archives. For example, some of the comments Jason Gunthorpe made in the non-free thread (in particular related to the possibility of non-free being "orphaned" by the ftp maintainers) should be available on the website to contrast Wichert's appraisal of the situation. It does seem really stupid to be passing a general resolution of the entire developer corps just to swap two piccies. It'd be nice if, in future, these things could be thought about in advance enough so we only need to vote once on these issues. :-/ On the upside, I think Darren's been running these pretty well --- I'm not sure about everyone else, but I fully expected votes to get lost, or miscounted, or *something* for the first few votes. A few spelling mistakes is pretty gee-darn good if you ask me. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``There's nothing worse than people with a clue. They're always disagreeing with you.'' -- Andrew Over
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