Re: Decision making in Debian
]] "Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)"
> Hi Dashamir
>
> On 2022/07/14 10:07, Dashamir Hoxha wrote:
> > I am not sure how democratic decision making is made in Debian, but
> > I guess it is done through mailing lists, which in my opinion are
> > not the best tool for this purpose.
>
> We don't have any form of decision making process on mailing lists. As
> others have mentioned, when we make a project-wide vote (like DPL
> elections or a GR), then that's co-ordinated by the project secretary.
I think the word «formal» is missing from the paragraph above (and even
in that case, things like proposing GRs and amendmends to ballot options
do happen on mailing lists, so it's a bit in the eye of the
beholder). :-) Quite a lot of decisions are made every day on mailing
lists (and IRC, Matrix, in person, and in a whole lot of other arenas)
they're just a lot less formal than GRs.
(As a more general comment to the suggestion to use liquidfeedback, I'm
not sure what problem is being addressed. I think figuring that out
first is rather important.)
Cheers,
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Tollef Fog Heen
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