Re: Bug#210879: marked as done (constitution.txt: revise odd language -- "K Developers"... "not integers")
On 2003-12-04 00:52:17 +0000 Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org> wrote:
FWIW, while I'm not sure if I agree with the assertion that it is a
problem, I do think the submitter deserves some level of
justification for
why it isn't left open/wontfix, since that is, in fact, what the
default
state for "can't agree on whether it's a bug" is really supposed to
be,
according to my reading of the relevant documents.
Please elaborate on this. As I read it, the wontfix tag is for things
that are bugs to some users but won't be changed. The example given in
the BTS guide is an arbitrary choice between two reasonable things.
In this case, we have the submitter (who I think is not a user of the
voting process) arguing against every respondant to this bug despite
evidence about mathematics, other voting system definitions and so on.
When challenged on the point, the submitter seems to prefer to argue
about the style, presentation or history of the challenger.
Compromises have been suggested, but dismissed at quite a high speed.
Only after tennis has started, the submitter suggested wontfix, but
that would still accept that this is a bug, which it isn't.
In short, I disagree there is a bug here, so leaving it open would be
unreasonable. I think it will create an ugly precedent if one
irrational submitter who dismisses all responses can single-handedly
keep a report open in order to score themselves some ego points. It's
time for them to do something constructive instead.
Frankly, I'd wonder if the most suitable answer isn't simply an
annotation
of some form, to the effect of "[1] Since one can't have fractional
developers, and the rule is 'at least', we always round up to the next
integer".
As previously explained (by Andrew Suffield, I think), that is not
what happens.
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