On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:50:29AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:33:27PM +0000, Peter Palfrader wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> >> > > Boycotting is unlikely to prevent all ballot options from reaching the >> > >> > Yeah Boycotting is silly, that's why I've voted for FD first, my >> > "preferred" choices second, the rest third. >> >> So in effect you prefer the options that do not require supermajority to >> those that do. Or at least make it more likely that they will win. > >Sadly, it's a necessary side effect yes. > >> This ballot sucks. > >News @ 11. >Especially since a few options require supermajority out of thin air. > >Is there someone on the plane here to do what's needed with the >secretary? If the DPL isn't willing to take any action here (and I'm >really annoyed that despite repeated questions about it he never showed >up in the discussion[0]), I believe I'm willing to start a GR (*SIGH*) >about it[1]. I've been talking with Manoj already, in private to try and avoid flaming. I specifically asked him to delay this vote until the numerous problems with it were fixed, and it was started anyway. I'm *really* not happy with that, and I'm following through now. >[0] There are at least ways to tell "Hey I don't want to troll, but my > position on the subject is $foo and I'm currently discussing it > privately with him" or whatever, that at least let us know what is > going on. Right now we see blatant power abuse, with the DPL being > completely OK with it. Sooo nice. Quite a number of people have contacted me privately, both in person and by mail, to complain about this ballot. There have been some delays (day job suddenly gettting *incredibly* busy :-(), but rest assured that I am not happy with how things are going at the moment and I'm doing something about it. I haven't yet responded to all those people, and for that I apologise. -- Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader <leader@debian.org>
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