Hi, On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Ian Jackson wrote: > chance of winning. The reason being that it is not worth forcing > other TC members to decide between snubbing the candidate and > misrepresenting their views, unless we really have to to get the right > answer. > > Or to put it another way: I am content to vote on a short slate if the > results of that are going to be the same as a hypothetical (honest) > vote on all the candidates. In this situation, voting on a short > slate avoids the need for TC members to disclose opinions which are > socially troublesome and not relevant to the actual decision.
Several comments: - all candidates should be aware that there would be a public vote so they sort of accepted the consequences - you don't have to justify your vote and thus you can avoid expressing any "socially troublesome" opinion that you might have - this process leaves the good (but not winning) candidates on the side just like the supposedly-bad ones that you want to protect... and this can mis-interpreted by the good candidates as the fact that TC-members have "socially troublesome opinions" about them. - some candidates might be interested in the vote results even if they know that they won't win - (putting aside my own candidacy) somehow I have the feeling that the list of candidates for the TC should be made public anyway, if not for transparency, at least to thank them for having volunteered. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
