On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:19:32PM +0100, Bas Wijnen wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:22:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > I have contacted a few people about helping out with the tasks above > > > (and some I plan to contact) but I can't hand out a definite list of > > > people who are willing to help me at this time. [...] > > > > Campaigning on debian-vote *and* canvassing for help? Is this really > > what aj meant by "summarise their plans for their term"? > > No, this is just answering a question. Do you suggest that he should > have delayed the answer until campaining would be allowed?
I can't speak for anyone else, of course, but yes, that's what I think Marc should've done. > > If the project is minded to allow such discussion during nominations, > > we should shorten the discussion-only period, instead of claiming > > there's some convention that campaigning is limited to the campaign > > period. > > I don't really remember the exact periods, and what is supposed to > happen when. (And I don't care enough to look it up.) What is the > reason we would want a campainless period during nominations? It could persuade people to nominate themselves (nor dissuade them from doing so) because they like or dislike one of the other candidates -- such a person would be nominating themselves (or refraining to do so) for very wrong reasons. That cannot be a good thing, ever. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
