First, a reminder: This poll was posited on the assumption that a change would be necessary, and tried to answer the question of which naming scheme should be used in that case. The question of changing at all is not, for the most part, under the aegis of the debian-bsd list. (Though we can, of course, always decide we want to change just for the heck of it, but it seems wiser to present others with a somewhat more reasonable rationale). Two complete votes were received, as follows: /---------- Christian demonology |/--------- Discworld gods ||/-------- Tolkien Valar/Maiar |||/------- Greek mythology ||||/------ Famous physicists |||||/----- K,KL prefix ||||||/---- k,kl prefix |||||||/--- k,kl suffix ||||||||/-- Userland/libc/kernel triple |||||||||/- Further discussion |||||||||| 3231241444 5323166674 Additionally, one early vote (prior to the final ballot) was received: _5124????3 And, finally, two single-preference votes not in a parseable formats were received: In favor of Famous Physicists In favor of Greek Mythology Frankly, trying to dig out the stuff from devotee to run this as a full ballot seems kind of silly, given the lack of votes, and the fact that more than half are not in a clean ballot form, so I'll do a more casual (and verbose) analysis; if anyone sees a flaw, though, please point it out. Christian demonology was ranked behind "Further Discussion" by two out of the three votes expressing a relationship. Seems like a loser. Discworld gods, Tolkien Valar/Maiar, and Greek mythology ranked ahead of Further Discussion on all three votes capable of expressing this, and Greek mythology got an individual most-favorite vote; Famous physicists ranked ahead on two, behind on one, but got a most-favorite vote as well. Only two ballots addressed the prefix/suffix notation; on those, the K,KL prefix, and k,kl suffix ranked equal to FD on one, and behind it on the other, while the k,kl prefix ranked well ahead of it on one, and well behind it on the other. On both ballots with the option, the triple was ranked last (equal-to-others last on one, dead last with no ties on the other). I think it's reasonably safe to discard demonology and triples as valid candidates. Discworld, Tolkien, Greek mythology, and Famous physicists are all in a morass which is difficult to declare any winner out of; however, the strongest (in having an extra vote, and *not* having any votes rank it behind Further Discussion) appears to be Greek mythology. None of them could be said to have anything like a solid mandate, though, given the lack of votes. Anyone seriously object to Greek myth? -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> ,''`. Debian GNU/NetBSD(i386) porter : :' : `. `' `-
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