Re: integrity of elections
>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:54:45 -0500,
>> Raul Miller <moth@magenta.com> said:
> I did not vote in this election. I know who I'd have voted for, if
> I did vote, but I'm struggling with some more fundamental issues.
The polls are not yet closed.
> More generally, most Debian decisions have been made by an
> "activist elite". So far, that's seemed to work fairly well --
> perhaps because of our charter, we've been able to trust that
> people interested in an issue will make well informed decisions
> about that issue.
I think you are making my original point.
> Or: I don't see the non-involvement of myself (or others) as a sign
> of ill health for the organization. It's the way things have
> always been -- we're a group of volunteer specialists, not
> political activists.
My original point was that people who do not actually
exercise their franchise are unlikely to be one of the active set --
and need to be looked at to see if they are indeed inactive. Having
inactive members is not itself unhealthy, except it does inflate
quorum a trifle, which can be bad in supermajority votes.
Additionally, identifying inactive developers would help in
deciding which packages need attention; un maintained packages do
hurt the project.
This is not the place to discuss the rest of my position as
evidenced in the log; we can shift to -project for that.
manoj
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