Hi, On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:22:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@ftwca.de> wrote: [...] > > I have contacted a few people about helping out with the tasks above > > (and some I plan to contact) but I can't hand out a definite list of > > people who are willing to help me at this time. [...] > > Campaigning on debian-vote *and* canvassing for help? Is this really > what aj meant by "summarise their plans for their term"? No, this is just answering a question. Do you suggest that he should have delayed the answer until campaining would be allowed? > If the project is minded to allow such discussion during nominations, > we should shorten the discussion-only period, instead of claiming > there's some convention that campaigning is limited to the campaign > period. I don't really remember the exact periods, and what is supposed to happen when. (And I don't care enough to look it up.) What is the reason we would want a campainless period during nominations? I don't really see any benefit. Especially because, as this shows, it is hard to not do campaining when answering questions (which may be raised by a nomination). > Any convention died years ago and candidates who campaign before and > after the specified time seem no longer punished for it. I see some benefit in not campaining during the voting period. But I don't see why anyone should be blocked from campaining before any period. > That would also reward early nominations and may help avoid candidates > like Marc Brockschmidt putting the time into standing from fear of > being left with only one unacceptable late nomination. I don't see how that would result from not campaining during the nomination period (or before it, for that matter). On the contrary; early nominations risk being punished because they talked about the DPL position in a way which some people might see as campaining. It would therefore lead to punished early nominations and more fear of no good candidates (due to late nominations). > Propose it and I'll second. I'm not sure what you want to see proposed, but I think I don't want to do it. ;-) Anyway, why don't you make the proposal yourself? Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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