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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 11:28:06AM -0500, Graham Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Can you please refer me to the discussions in question? As far as I can
> > tell, both Steve and I (release assistants) have an entirely different
> > impression, and between us we proposed some of the options on the
> > ballot.
> 
> I can't remember the thread off-hand, but I believe the idea is that
> some people feel the changes to the social contract were only editorial.
> 
> Given this, some people might think that only the release policy has
> changed, and that reverting the changes from GR 2004-03 won't change the
> meaning of the social contract, because it has always been the same.
> 
> If you accept this line of reasoning, the amendments that attempt to
> revert to the previous wording won't have any affect.

Now that I look back over the ballot, I don't think this would apply to
your amendment Colin, but only to Proposals A, B, and D.

-- 
gram



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