Re: electing multiple people
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:19:43 +0200, Josip Rodin <joy@entuzijast.net> said:
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 02:22:41AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> The problem most often materializes when there are heated opinions,
>> but the fundamental problem is when people can't work together with
>> mutual respect. If you end up with people who intensely dislike each
>> other, the group will have an exceedingly hard time reaching
>> consensus on anything.
> MJ and Bernhard made good points already, I'll just concentrate on a
> few bits that troubled me: I don't agree with these two premises -
> that any two elected Debianites would so intensely dislike each other
> to cause a deadlock in the rest of the group, or that this deadlock
> would spread onto all other issues (other than the one they over which
> they originally came in conflict). I do not see any historical
> precedent in Debian history to reach that harsh a conclusion.
Err. I see an immediate historical precedent, which in fact lead
to a recent expulsion. Several mailing lists became poisoned to the
level that people left off volunteering. If it happened once, it can
happen again ...
manoj
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