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Re: Third call for votes for the debian project leader election 2006



On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 09:29:51PM +1000, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> > * Should non-DD contributors be allowed to vote on just about anything?
> >   If not, what types of votes should they be allowed to vote on, and
> >   what types of votes should they not be allowed to vote on? Make this a
> >   clear rule, so that you can apply it to any possible and impossible
> >   thing we might have an idea about voting on.

> Maybe a better question is "would non-DD contributors vote on things that
> they don't understand?"  It seems to me that we are already in a situation
> where only the people who are really interested in, or informed about, a
> particular question are voting on it.  That's why we have such low voting
> rates.  It seems likely to me that people who don't know about something
> and who can't be bothered informing themselves won't bother vote anyway.

Do you think that developers who base their votes on the contents of DPL
platforms are informed voters?

-- 
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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