Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:33:29AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 11:28:06AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > Can you please refer me to the discussions in question? As far as I can
> > > tell, both Steve and I (release assistants) have an entirely different
> > > impression, and between us we proposed some of the options on the
> > > ballot.
> >
> > I can't remember the thread off-hand, but I believe the idea is that
> > some people feel the changes to the social contract were only editorial.
> >
> > Given this, some people might think that only the release policy has
> > changed, and that reverting the changes from GR 2004-03 won't change the
> > meaning of the social contract, because it has always been the same.
> >
> > If you accept this line of reasoning, the amendments that attempt to
> > revert to the previous wording won't have any affect.
>
> Now that I look back over the ballot, I don't think this would apply to
> your amendment Colin, but only to Proposals A, B, and D.
I don't really understand why we would need to apologize to release
sarge sooner given that the alternative is to support woody longer,
whereas woody has more problems with respect to the Social contract.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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