Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 12:41:04AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> It is precisely because we all agree on the importance of releasing
> sarge soon that we have proposed so many paths to reaching this goal.
> This is an effort to build consensus, not a lack of consensus on our
> part.  Debian is a large community, and it's not easy to know what the
> outcome of such a vote will be before it happens.  The range of ballot
> options has been provided partly in the hope that at least *one* among
> these options will receive the necessary support from developers and
> will put us back on the road to releasing sarge.

This rely on the premices that at least some options will allow to release
sarge sooner. Unfortunately discussions on debian-vote involving the
release manager and the ctte had made clear to me that none of the
ballot options will have positive effect on the release of sarge, making
the exercise rather pointless, the reason being, all the options focus
on the previous SC change and side-step the real issue which is the
change of the release policy. I see no evidence that any changes of the
SC will imply change in the release policy allowing to release sarge
sooner.

So currently, I feel that "Further discussion" is the option that will
do the least damage to the release. I could be convinced otherwise, but
I need proofs before considering any change to the SC.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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