Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip polling
Hi Moray
Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org> writes:
> On 2013-07-24 00:20, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> ‣ If the majority of the respondents answered [YES], rafw and OdyX
>> will proceed as planned. If not, we shall default to "Further
>> discussion".
>
> But this is a different one. I don't think that this form of poll is a
> good way to decide anything. It's certainly not how decisions in
> DebConf or in Debian usually work.
Is this a remark about the specific way this poll is setup or a
statement against using polls to decide anything in debconf-team in
general? (not sure about this because you say "*this form* of poll")
Do you have an alternative proposal how to do decisions then? At least
this form of the poll is the result of a decision of a debconf-team
meeting. There was (at least as I saw it) more or less consensus that
this is the best option to solve the deadlock. At least during the
meeting nobody opposed to doing the poll.
I'm also not a big fan of doing decision by voteing and would have
prefered a consensus. But IMO we need a way to go forward in cases where
there is no consensus emerging within reasonable time as otherwise a
minority can always block the decision which is a clearly inferior
solution IMHO. There are also more or less binary decisions where a
middle ground solution is inferior to either option. In this case it's
hard to find a compromise.
Gaudenz
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