Re: Call for votes for "GR: : Handling source-less firmware in the Linux kernel"
Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:33:42PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:43:57 -0700, Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> said:
>>
>> > Debian Project Secretary <secretary@debian.org> writes:
>> >> In the brackets next to your preferred choice, place a 1. Place a 2
>> >> in the brackets next to your next choice. Do not enter a number
>> >> smaller than 1 or larger than 2. You may skip numbers. You may
>> >> rank options equally (as long as all choices X you make fall in the
>> >> range 1<= X <= 3).
>>
>> > These instructions are self-contradictory. -- Ben Pfaff email:
>> > blp@cs.stanford.edu web: http://benpfaff.org
>>
>> Rubish. You have tow overlapping constraints. One constraint
>> happens to be a superset of the other. There is not contradiction --
>> get your nit-picking right, fer gaeds sake.
>
> Whatever you call it, it's your screw-up.
I don't even think there's anything seriously screwed. And if there
were, the right thing to do would be to ask Manoj "Please tell me where
I can download the script you use, so that I can fix it", instead of
blaming him.
> And yes, this is a concern,
> because there are plenty of people participating in this vote, who
> might be confused by this, but reluctant to ask for clarifications due
> to language and/or culture barrier.
Anyone who ist not able to figure out themselves what this means might
have a problem in their Debian work generally, since you can't expect
that everything is spelled out and proofread when you're dealing with
Debian packages.
Anyone who has a language and/or culture barrier to asking if they don't
understand something important, and/or at the same time is not able to
find the information in the constitution that is the "source" for this
paragraph, they will have a *severe* problem working in Debian.
> If it's so unbearably painful
> for you to hear the criticism, perhaps you should do a better job of
> proof-reading the ballot (and your replies :-) next time.
Given the (often unwarranted) criticism Manoj had to face in the last
couple of days, his reply wasn't really bad-tempered. And how about
your offering him to proofread the ballot? Or just doing it, since he
actually posted it in public for that very purpose?
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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