On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:57:23PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:22:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > > 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? > > Yes. Candidates should be organised enough to defer a task a few days. Oh yes, it's not a matter of being unable to do this. I just don't see much point to it. If it's only to follow the letter of the consitution, then appearantly the constitution is wrong. You seem to agree with me on that. :-) However, I don't agree with you that campaining at any other time would violate the consitution. See below. > > 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. [...] > > I want a limit on the election campaign time to try to limit the > inevitable politicking from spilling over into more of the year. I did look it up now. In 5.2 the only thing that it says is 5.2.4: "... candidates should use this time for campaigning and discussion. ..." It doesn't say that campaining is forbidden at any other time. This means that (if I understand you correctly) you are wrong that campaining during the nomination period is currently forbidden, but you are right that campaining during the rest of the year is allowed. I agree with you that we don't want this to lead to national politics type stuff we see in many nations. However, I think we don't need to create our own problems: we don't have that problem (or at least I don't see it), so there's no need to forbid it. More rules only invite people to start complaining, which leads to much less productivity. That is, IMO we should solve hypothetical social problems by saying "we'll solve them reasonably when they are a real issue." If talking doesn't help, we can start making real rules then. Only if the current rules contradict with what we want, should we change them. Not if they aren't very specific. > The benefit would be less time spent on the election, so available for > other work. I think this is not a real issue. Do you feel we lose volunteer time because people are campaining during the year? 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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