On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 02:35:01AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > Yes, you are. The situation has changed. We now have a logo, we > voted on that, and I'm certainly not trying to change that fact. > > If you want to be pedantic this vote is actually an attempt to reverse > the previous logo vote, since we voted against the swirl as the > free-use logo when ``Modified Swirl'' failed to win. > > My complaint comes from the fact that there was absolutely no > discussion about this new vote prior to it being proposed. > > If it had been discussed, I think we could have reached a consensus > without a vote. At least if it had finally required a vote, then the > question being voted on might actually have addressed the problem, > rather than approaching it from an obtuse angle. > > Just because something isn't a technical issue, doesn't mean that it > is inconceivable that someone could come up with a convincing enough > argument to persuade people about it. I think one of the problems we have is an issue of what must be developer vote and what not. *Who* gets to decide that the logos should/should not be swapped? The 5-10-15 (for example) people active on the -publicity list? A delegate of the DPL? If it were packaged like the policy manual or the packaging manual, I'd say the maintainer but as it is... who has the authority. Where is the line between "an agreement amoung a minority of developers" (which is what a consensus would be.. since the majority would be silent) and "an agreement by vote" which would, if nothing else, draw more people into expressing an opinion... even if that opinion is yea or nea... even if that opinion is uninformed. Err.. that was rambling.. the upsod is, where's the line between a few deciding and more deciding? -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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