On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 02:05:35PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> writes: > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 05:50:59PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > >> On Wed, 01 Jan 2014, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > >> > and I think it'd be a shame if we ended up losing or demotivating a > >> > good bunch of good developers again. > >> > >> Pretty much every time the CTTE makes a ruling, someone is going to be > >> annoyed or demotivated. Easy, non-contentious decisions never make it to > >> us. > >> > >> If there are concrete ways we can be better at making sure that it's > >> clear developers concerns are being heard and taken into account which > >> we are not already doing, I'd certainly like to hear them. > > > > Is there any useful way we could take a reasonably quick non-binding > > straw poll of developers? Sort of an "if we voted a particular way, is > > it likely that we would be on the wrong side of developer opinion". > > Maybe someone could setup a vote on vote.debian.org? I have no idea how > complicated it is (IIRC it is not totally trivial). It might also be > possible to allow at least DDs and DMs to vote. > Just replying to this bit - Yes, it's technically possible, but non trivial. I would be willing to put the work in to create a poll if the tech-ctte asked nicely, but not if any random developer wants one, it's just too much overhead. This is either for this, or for future work. I may well get round to looking again at devotee and making it easier to do polls etc at some point... Neil --
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