Hi Moray Moray Allan <[email protected]> writes:
> On 2013-07-24 00:20, Gunnar Wolf wrote: >> ‣ If the majority of the respondents answered [YES], rafw and OdyX >> will proceed as planned. If not, we shall default to "Further >> discussion". > > But this is a different one. I don't think that this form of poll is a > good way to decide anything. It's certainly not how decisions in > DebConf or in Debian usually work. Is this a remark about the specific way this poll is setup or a statement against using polls to decide anything in debconf-team in general? (not sure about this because you say "*this form* of poll") Do you have an alternative proposal how to do decisions then? At least this form of the poll is the result of a decision of a debconf-team meeting. There was (at least as I saw it) more or less consensus that this is the best option to solve the deadlock. At least during the meeting nobody opposed to doing the poll. I'm also not a big fan of doing decision by voteing and would have prefered a consensus. But IMO we need a way to go forward in cases where there is no consensus emerging within reasonable time as otherwise a minority can always block the decision which is a clearly inferior solution IMHO. There are also more or less binary decisions where a middle ground solution is inferior to either option. In this case it's hard to find a compromise. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
