Re: DPL Voting period
On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 12:01:42PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 08:25:06PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > It was always my understanding that this was the case, and as far
> > as I know people have always stopped discussing after the
> > campaigning was over.
>
> I think this is largely true, but it is not written into the constitution.
> People's attitudes towards continued discussion on debian-vote during the
> voting period are probably heavily influenced by their local laws about
> campaign blackouts before elections in meatspace.
I think that is rather irrelevant. It has been a longstranding tradition
in Debian that we stop campaigning once the vote is running. While we
can obviously always change that tradition, it feels wrong to just go
ahead and do it without any prior discussion about the subject.
> While discussion on debian-vote usually wraps up once voting starts, I don't
> believe there's anything to be enforced here by the Secretary.
To be fair, Kurt mailed in his personal name, he didn't use a secretary@
mail address or try to wear his secretary hat in any other way.
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
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