Re: "Social Contract GR's Affect on sarge" or "Debian commits suicide"

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:25:48PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> was heard to say:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:12:25PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> >                                                    The recent vote has now
> > established that the majority view is the project-official view.
> 
> There's no evidence of that. We don't know what 80% of the developers
> think. Please don't pretend otherwise.

  We know that 80% of the developers didn't care enough to vote.  The
only reasonable conclusion I can draw from that is that most [0] of them
considered both options equally acceptable (or unacceptable).

  If there really is a silent 80% majority opposed to the recent GR,
hopefully they'll bother to vote next time.  We have a great voting
system, but it only works if people take a few minutes to read the
ballot, evaluate it, and send in a vote.

  Daniel

  [0] I don't believe that 80% of the developers are too busy to cast a
  vote in an electronic election spanning three weeks.  25%, maybe.

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