On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 08:09:09PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 01.01.2020, 11:19 -0600 schrieb John Hasler: > > andrew.mcglashan wrote: > > > ...it is very limited to a small group of Debian users known > > > collectively as DDs... > > It is limited to the people who actually do the work. Why should the > > fact that you chose to download, install, and use some software that > > someone wrote and generously made available to you for free give you any > > right to participate in their decisions as to what to do next. > Even if users don't have voting rights we bound ourselves to them by the Debian > Social Contract: "4. Our priorities are our users and free software [..]" to > which all DDs agreed (myself included). Right; so since all DDs are bound by this social contract, including when we are voting in GRs, there is no need for more direct franchisement of users in the decision-making processes since we are all acting in users' interests. > So there must be ways for our users to participate in the decision making. All users, or just the vocal minority? > Your view might reflect the current reality but it is not what we have signed > up for. The Social Contract only says that users are our priority. It does not say that we should implement any particular method of soliciting their input on decisions. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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