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Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge



On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:45:53PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> I find it to be more like fishing for consensus, by trying as many
> possibilities as possible (hence "buckshot"). It really could have
> been better refined (if nothing else, the combinations of options
> which are *not* present indicates that the proposals weren't very
> carefully planned out).
> 
> I can see a whole range of ways in which options 1-3 could have been
> better written. I'm not even sure where to start with 5. If any of
> these win then we'll probably end up in a spiralling sequence of votes
> for the rest of the year, gradually working out bugs in them. Of
> these, option 3 is the one which will probably result in the *least*
> further edits.
> 
> The reason why we got into this state is because "releasing sarge"
> appears to be the sole priority - no matter how or what is released,
> it *must* be released soon, at the expense of all else.

Yes, some developers think that, as is their right. Would you please
allow others to have opinions that differ from your own? 

The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think.
Hopefully that will be the end of it.


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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