Xan, 2004-01-12 22:50:13 +0100 : >> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:31:02PM +0100, Xan wrote: >> > In 07 Jan 2004 17:09, I wrote the following in Usenet, and it seems that >> > anyone answered essentially that >> > 1) I have to send this to "aj", the release manager, and that >> > 2) it is a example of overengineered suggestion. >> > >> > Well, I have to say that it was a solution (perhaps overengineered) to >> > achieve that the election of codenames of Debian were more >> > democratically than now. I'm sad (and worry) that to no body likes >> > this suggestion and overall the possibility that the choose of >> > codenames were democratical. >> >> Why's that necessary? > > Why not?
Uh. So we should do things just because we can't find arguments proving that they are not necessary? > 1) It's a election of a non-technical part of Debian and I think > that it's have to be made democratically. As if a group of persons > have to make a decission, they vote the alternatives, it's natural > to make the same in this case. Okay. If things ever happen your way, I hereby delegate my vote to the current release manager, and I encourage other Debian developers to do so and spend their valuable time fixing bugs instead of voting and arguing on something that insignificant. > 2) With democratic election, aj will have less work. aj, be honest: how much time have you spent choosing release codenames, total, ever since you've become the release manager (which is longer than I can remember)? I suspect something along the lines of a couple of minutes. Oh, and Manoj (as project secretary) will have *much* more work. Setting up, conducting, and controlling a vote is not trivial. And you have to add it to the web pages. And translate these pages. > 3) It suggests interest by all the debian newbees: > 1) It were fun by them Can't understand that sentence. > 2) It were clear that Debian is a distro made by and > for the people. Debien is made by Debian developers for the people. People interested in helping are welcome to become Debian developers. I believe the common opinion among current Debian developers is that a release codename is insignificant, and the release manager is entitled to decide over it. > I don't say the contrary. I only said that we could elect the > codenames democratically. Again: what would we gain? > Well, with this encourage and entusiasm, I will be charmed (?) to > shout out!. You motivate that the newbee users (as me) only want be > newbees, because always that they want to apport any idea, you > critize (destructively) their ideas. I can't see how we destruct your idea. You still haven't brought a single valid argument for why we should be democratical over that point. Roland. -- Roland Mas S'agirait pas d'atteindre la sublime transcendance du supramental sans se bouger le fion un minimum... -- in Sri Raoul le petit yogi (Gaudelette)
