Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:15:19PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0100, MJ Ray <mjr@phonecoop.coop> said:
> > > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. [...]
> >
> > This would probably mean that organizing the debate might have
> > to go; since the time period for identifying the candidates,
> > determining what time slots would work for them, the organizers, and
> > the audience would shrink, to the point that it is unlikely that there
> > would be any time for a post debate followup period to ask for
> > clarifications and all.
>
> Would it? The organisers and most time slot limitations could be
> identified before nominations close and the possibilities announced.
> The organisers were already being identified before nominations closed
> this year, after all:-
Yes, and even so, the debate was already pretty late during the campaign
this year because agreeing on a time slot seemed almost impossible.
Shortening the campaigning as you suggest will make organizing the
debate pretty much ruled out.
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