On Tue, 06 Jan 2009, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > - To help voters choose, the following people should be able to > > > require the Secretary to quote on each GR ballot form a URL > > > of their choice, to be used by them for disseminating their vews on > > > the vote: > > > The Proposer of each resolution or amendment > > > The Project Leader > > > Each Delegate or group of Delegate(s) named or overruled > > > A nominee of the Technical Committee > > > A nominee of each Trusted organisation designated according to 9.3 > > > > I agree with the intent but I don't agree with the list of persons you > > selected. I would restrict it to: > > - The proposer of each resolution or amendment > > - The seconders of each resolution or amendment > > The point of this is to allow voters who do not wish to review > thousand-message mailing list threads to get a clear summary of the > issues from all of the relevant sides. That means that everybody > relevant must be able to get their statement referenced but also that > the number of such statements should be kept reasonably small.
How do you define "relevant"? The vote is run because someome proposed a GR and X others have seconded it. They are relevant, it happened due to them. Now as a voter I want to know their motivation and would like to have a link to mail where they explain it. > Anyone can make themselves a seconder simply by seconding something. > So in principle this means that anyone who wants to can get their > position statement referenced. Surely that can't be what you meant ? Yes it is. It's also the reason that I don't want it to be on the ballot itself but only on the vote page, available to people who are looking for more background information on the proposal. > Why did I list the Leader, named or overruled Delegates, the TC, and > the Trusted organisations ? Because it might be that their decisions > are being overruled or preempted. That means that they must have a > right to be heard, alongside their `accusers' as it were. It might be that a GR is about my job of administering alioth.d.o. Why am I not listed ? :-) Let's simplify and say that any time the GR is about overriding someone's decision, then the overriden person/team can have a link to their own position statement. But I don't see a reason to give any blanket permission for all those parties to have their position statement referenced. > No, I would like the ballot paper to contain links to web pages > controlled by each of the relevant people. A digested > hopefully-coherent position paper, with references and other > supporting material as the relevant people think appropriate, allows > each side to do the best job it can of being convincing. That's quite > different from getting a link to the middle of some flamewar. I don't like the fact that the content of the page viewed is under control of the person and might change during the vote. That's why I wanted simple archived mails. But those mails should be readable on their own without needing to read followup or history. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
