On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:37:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > So far, people seem to be taking the position that it will better to > > first vote on whether or not we're going to move in this direction (a > > super majority decision) and then, once that decision is made to focus > > on the details. > > Cut first, measure later? An interestingly reversed metaphor. It is the process of voting which will enable us to measure what we want to do. How we *act* upon that measurement is the "cutting". Passing a GR, in and of itself, does nothing tangible, just as the Social Contract has no force without a group of developers who pledge to uphold its meaning through their works. Similary, slavery is outlawed in every nation, but notoriously continues to be praticed, sometimes quite overtly[1]. It takes more than a piece of paper or exhortative words to make things happen, as I'm sure you're aware in your capacity as Release Manager. [1] http://www.infoplease.com/spot/slavery1.html -- G. Branden Robinson | It may be difficult to to determine Debian GNU/Linux | where religious beliefs end and branden@debian.org | mental illness begins. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Elaine Cassel
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