On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 10:49:48PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org> writes: > > > On Thu, 09 Feb 2006, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > >> Quoting Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT>: > > >> > Well, maybe the people who mislabeled the "everything is software" vote > > >> > as an "editorial change" and deceived many other developers should have > > >> > tought about this. > > >> The only people it made happy are extremists. See #207932. This is a > > > A 3:1 majority win in 2004-04 makes your claim rather tenuous, unless you > > > are arguing that such a large part of Debian is composed of extremists, > > > only. > > That was a 3:1 majority out of 200 voters, considering that Debian > http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004 > There were exactly 909 developers including active, MIA and inactive ones at > the time of the 2004-04 GR, as stated in the vote page. However only 396 > developers voted. > People who don't vote in Debian, by definition, don't care (if they wanted > to protest, they would vote against all options). > Option D (rescind the 2004-03 GR) didn't even reach the 3:1 [majority > requirement]. However, it *did* pass a simple majority. It doesn't benefit us as a project at all to have people making overly-broad claims about the significance of the previous votes. When I look at the relatively low turnout of 2004-03, the complaints since about its handling, and the fact that a vote to repeal 2004-03 received a simple majority among a larger body of voters, I find it impossible to draw any strong conclusions about project-wide opinions on this subject. *Would* a vote with fuller project participation overturn the Social Contract modifications? I can't say either way with any confidence. 2004-03 certainly wasn't the "mandate from the masses" that some people seem to want to claim it is. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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