On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 11:37:02AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > As secretary, I would love that. The web team will need volunteers to > > write those posistion statements, however. During the Leader Elections, I > > tried to get platform statments that could be put up on vote.debian.org and > > it wasn't easy. > > Well, this is also a bit problematic - our current system does have a bit > of a flaw, the presenter of the vote obvoisly gets to set the ballot and > the proposal text - so they get to print a happy picture. As AJ noted this > isn't very good. But if you allow anyone to include their paranoid > ramblings in the proposal then that isn't any better.. > > I'd just suggest that Darren should get to select the content to appear on > the web site and the proposals and what we vote on so that it is of a good > quality, truthfull and meaningfull. I don't think it should be "any blind ramblings" but a situation where the Secretary is required to write the pro and con summaries won't work, either. Even he has opinions that would taint the choice he didn't like. [I tried to generalize it for all people filling this position] -- 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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