On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:44:37PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > I hope you can post a summary. I found many questions very > interesting since you touch the question of the role of the DPL. > I think it would be interesting for other candidates (and for the > community as a whole) to hear what people expect from the DPL. It is my intention to post a summary. I didn't address this point in the original mail because I wasn't even sure very many people would reply. But so far response has been very positive (in that people are responding, and offering a lot in the way of comments) so I am hopeful that over the coming week or so I will eventually gather a fairly decent sample. Originally I planned to incorporate whatever feedback I received into my Platform, but now I'm less sure that's the right way to go. I think we should be having discussions about some of the issues I raised in the questionnaire (note that -project is the proper list for such things), especially since there are some interesting differences and confluences of opinion in the Project that I wasn't quite expecting to see. One hazard I can see with incorporating a summary into my Platform (<AlGore>should I decide to run</AlGore>) is that people might incorrectly extrapolate from my personal positions to a majority of the questionnaire feedback. That would be a reckless assumption because I reserve the right to disagree with the majority of Debian Developers. :) (If I do so with respect to many issues, though, it's probably not worth running for DPL.) The hazard with not incorporating a summary into my Platform is that people may assume that I'm trying to give the impression that the questionnaire feedback will have had no impact on it, which would of course be perceived as disingenuous and negative. Of *course* the feedback is going to have an influence on my thinking. That's the point. Anyway, one way or the other, yes; you'll have your summary. I am going to try to resist the temptation to perform much in the way of quantitative and statistical analysis, because 1) I'm not experienced with such matters and 2) I strongly suspect that my survey is going to have some skew problems with regards to sampling. I am probably more likely to get responses from people who are neutral to sympathetic to the notion of my DPL candidacy, and less likely to get responses from my potential opponents or people who are very uncomfortable with the thought of me being elected to DPL. After all, the latter group, if it exists, won't want to give me "ammunition" with which to make myself a better candidate, because they'd rather I lose. :) Still, I'd welcome an earnest response even from someone who is outright hostile to me. If such a person wants to wait until after the nomination period or the election, that's fine. The most important thing is that we as a Project have the self-knowledge we need to make good decisions in the future. With luck, my little[1] questionnaire will be a modest step in that direction. [1] well, there is some dispute on that very issue -- G. Branden Robinson | "To be is to do" -- Plato Debian GNU/Linux | "To do is to be" -- Aristotle branden@debian.org | "Do be do be do" -- Sinatra http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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