Maybe more to the point, the thread was going in the direction of a general
policy discussion about how to conduct votes and how to handle requests for
delays. Dima interrupted, unprompted as far as I can see, by bringing back
up the particular recent case along with comments about one particular
person who had advocated for a delay. We should be able to discuss general
policy issues without this kind of derailing.
On Friday, October 7, 2022 at 8:43:02 AM UTC-7 John H Palmieri wrote:
> I apologize for being indirect. I was responding to Dima's sentence, "...
> the delay was requested by an individual ..." which implies that there was
> just one person requesting the delay. I was pointing out, apparently too
> indirectly, that more than one person had requested a delay, and perhaps
> not everyone who requested a delay was guilty, in Dima's view, of some
> transgression.
>
> In short: Dima, cut it out with the straw men ("straw man: an
> intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is
> easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument").
>
>
> On Friday, October 7, 2022 at 3:45:27 AM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 7, 2022 at 12:19 AM Kwankyu Lee <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Friday, October 7, 2022 at 7:05:38 AM UTC+9 John H Palmieri wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Dima, presumably you're not talking about me, although I proposed that
>> "we start a vote around October 1".
>> >
>> >
>> > I guess he means: https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/33725#comment:26
>>
>> yes, that's exactly what I meant.
>>
>> Dima
>>
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