Re: task & skills
On Dec 05, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> * Joey Hess (joeyh@debian.org) [001205 23:32]:
> > We vote when we cannot agree on something through regular discussion.
> > Since the votes still happen infrequently, you might conclude that most
> > progress is being made through regular discussion. So wanting to join
> > debian to be able to vote is worthless; if we get to the point of
> > needing a vote, the process has already broken down and your input is
> > not going to be particularly useful.
>
> With this reasoning I understand the election results in the US. Thank you.
I believe Joey's point is that 99.9% of the things that get done are
done by consensus (or at least acquiesence to existing policy).
Ideally, we should vote exactly once a year: for DPL.
Chris
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