GNU has decided that they don't want sede - secure democracy at the moment, because it has no active maintainer.
The fact that I am not maintaining it right now is because I have other things to be doing that I think are more important for the cause of justice and democracy right now then adding more features to sede - secure democracy, which could after all be easily done by anyone who is programming on whatever application; of which there are thousands of people in the world. I don't know anyone who is busy wiht such things as revolution, change of Constitutions, removal of empires, ending the banking power, and such issues, therefore my time is better spend where the greatest lack is. They explicitly said they do not disagree with the functionality of sede, or to have a democracy functionality in GNU. Therefore hte door seems to be standing wide open for anyone to be the 'lead' maintainer of the democracy function program for GNU. Obviously I would do everything I could to help such a maintainer, I can probably spend an hour or two a day talking about it. That would probably help a maintainer a lot, you'd always have quick and probably correct answers on the code and package. Another important matter is to get the package into Debian. The package was written with general Unix, Debian and GNU compatibility in mind (as far as the overall function/design goes). Such as, interoperability, readable-editable configurations and protocols, specialization in one task exclusively (Unix), the more documentation the better (Debian, what a great rule that is, i'm really glad I heard about that one because indeed after some years you forget things and start to realize outside persons have no magic clues on a program), and trying to constantly test and try to make it as stable as possible, have long options, use GPL to make sure it stays free (GNU). Sede - secure democracy has so many features at the moment that I'm almost wondering whether it becomes bloatware. But since the features are part of new sub-programs (like modules say) that are their own entity, and because if you program something like this you are probably going to want those features anyway some day and it is all really about the voting-function, I don't think it is really bloated yet. Although the code stability is apparently reasonable, it is written in non-object oriented fashion. Since the program is modular you can probably change the program per module if you like it differently. It uses several comma-separated files as databases. Most importantly: it works, and it is not an obscure program by any means (imho). It's manual is complete, it has a long FAQ, it has a walk-through guide, it installs with a test-poll you can run completely from a script and example polls to simply edit ... It is a powerful program used from the command line (at the moment), it has no GUI (at the moment). It is to a degree a specialist program, but presumably also simple enough to be readily used by anyone who can use the Unix command line. Don't be afraid of democracy, be afraid of the tyrannical world you are living in, but you don't even see it. Who is your boss to tell you what to do ? Why do you not own your share of soil in your nation ? Why are the morons in the top makign war again, again and again ? If you think you are safe behind that text terminal of yours, you have no clue about this world and its history ... Without true justice & democracy ruling the lands far and wide, the power of land, money and management curbed to serve the people, you will regret it you are not using the historical opportunity we have right now with all the rights and materials we still enjoy at the moment. We can achieve many things with minimal effort at the moment, but if you don't use that opportunity sufficiently, take a look at history to see where we will probably end up. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Karl, Ok, I understand; personally I think you are making a mistake with this decision though, because there are few things as important as true democracy. GNU won't survive in a tyrannical environment, as you probably can imagine. Once I have found maintainer, I'll inform that person they could contact you and that there is a good chance things can start to move on GNU 'democracy functionality' ... best regards, and thank you for the effort in reviewing the matter, jos boersema _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss