Hi, I hereby propose those two alternate options and am asking for seconds. | Option: Ask the DAM to postpone the changes | | The Debian Project, by way of a general resolution of its developers, asks | the Debian Account Managers to postpone the implementation of the changes | described on the debian-devel-announce mailing list (Message-id: | <878wsgmi1j.fsf@vorlon.ganneff.de>) about "Developer Status", until there | is consensus on a proposal, or a vote to define the proposal that should | be implemented. and: | Option: Ask the DAM to implement the changes | | The Debian Project, by way of a general resolution of its developers, asks | the Debian Account Managers to start the implementation of the changes | described on the debian-devel-announce mailing list (Message-id: | <878wsgmi1j.fsf@vorlon.ganneff.de>) about "Developer Status". Rationale: ---------- I don't think that we should include general statements about half-related topics in the GR. This would cause people to scratch their heads, and decide that they don't want to vote for something that makes them say something they don't want to say. In particular: + I don't take position on the quality of the proposal. + I don't want to explicitely "thank Joerg" in the GR, because, depending on who reads the GR, it might sound sincere, bitter or sarcastic. + I don't want to generally state that signifiant changes must go through a vote first (or anything similar), because people who might agree in this particular case might disagree in the general case. Also, defining "signifiant changes" is not easy. I don't think that we need to explicitely suspend the decisions (ie, make the formulation binding for the DAMs). I personally trust the DAMs for not going on with those changes if there's a GR to decide if they should be implemented or not. And Peter Palfrader's proposal isn't binding either. I know that Option 2 is close from the current wording of the GR, as proposed by Peter Palfrader. However, Condorcet is clone-proof, so having two similar options on the ballot is not a problem. Also, some people have expressed disagreement about some of the statements made in the GR. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lucas@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F |
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