Bug#727708: Call for votes on init system resolution
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 12:04:20AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> I am not sure whether Colin is aware that it currently depends on him
> whether or not DT can win - and whether that might make him consider
> changing his vote.
>
> If Ian convinces Colin to change his vote to move DT from 5. to 7. on
> his ballot, then DT cannot pass FD and is dead.
I have been intentionally trying not to do the Condorcet analysis,
because I consider tactical voting of that kind to be borderline
dishonest. As it is, I'm far from a voting systems expert and I have to
go to considerable effort to work this sort of thing out, making me
safer against any impulses I might develop to manipulate things. So I
would actually appreciate it if people did not try to make me aware of
these things. (I will now try to burn the brain cells involved in
writing this paragraph. :-) )
When deciding my vote, I was trying to bear in mind that decision
paralysis has its own costs to the project: further discussion is not
automatically the safe status quo that it might be in other situations.
Thus, I mainly ranked those options below FD which I considered not to
make enough useful progress, so that we would be very likely to simply
end up back here in a short period of time. For me, I consider DT (and
for that matter UT) to be a significantly less than ideal compromise;
among other things I don't think it provides enough safeguards against
various kinds of fracturing of the distribution. But it also doesn't
exclude (what I think of as) better outcomes, and it gets us past this
divisive and exhausting debate and lets us move to a default init which
is better than we have now even if it isn't my preferred one. So,
taking this into consideration, I placed it barely above FD, and I think
I'd do the same in future votes on similar sets of options.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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