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Re: Proposed ballot for the GR: Deciding on the effect of GR 2004_003



On Sun, 16 May 2004 19:59:48 -0500, Graham Wilson <bob@decoy.wox.org> said: 

> On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 06:03:34PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Sun, 16 May 2004 22:09:01 +0200, Wouter Verhelst
>> <wouter@grep.be> said:
>> > On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 10:27:49AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> >> On 15 May 2004 21:11:02 +0100, Henning Makholm
>> >> <henning@makholm.net> said:
>> >> >    The full texts of the proposals being voted on can be found
>> >> >    on
>> >> >       http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004
>> >>
>> >> >    They have been been omitted here due to their (combined)
>> >> >    length.  Please go to the above URL and read the actual
>> >> >    proposals before voting.
>> >>
>> >> Why do developers have to be told this?
>>
>> > Let me turn the question around. Is there any harm in doing this?
>>
>> Perhaps.

> Perhaps there is harm in noting that the full text of the proposals
> have been left out, and is available on the web?

> What harm is that?

	It is belabouring the obvious. How can anyone think that 40
 characters is the full text of the proposal? 

	And are there really debian developers who do not understand
 this? 
======================================================================
The details of the general resolution can be found at:
http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_004
======================================================================

	manoj
-- 
"The things to do are: the things that need doing: that /you/ see need
to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then
you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done --
that no one else has told you to do or how to do it.  This will bring
out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has
acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others
on the individual."  --- R. Buckminster Fuller
Manoj Srivastava   <srivasta@debian.org>  <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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