Re: Willingness to share a position statement?
On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 07:28:14PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-25 19:21:36)
> >
> > Margarita Manterola <margamanterola@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 6:59 PM Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> Essentially, voting in this GR is implicitly
> > >> compulsory and there is only one correct way to vote.
> > >
> > >
> > > Also not true. The GR is to vote whether Debian issues a statement about
> > > this or not. If you think Debian shouldn't issue a statement about this,
> > > that's a totally valid opinion. The point of the GR is to gauge whether the
> > > majority of DDs think that the project should or should not issue a
> > > statement. We won't know until the voting is over whether that's the
> > > case.
> >
> > I'm very sorry if I misunderstood something (this is the first GR to
> > come up since I joined the project, please excuse the
> > handholding/noise), but isn't this a GR over whether or not Debian
> > issues a *specific* statement about the matter?
> >
> > It puts those of us who may wish for Debian to make *a* statement, but
> > dislike the broadness of the open letter that is under consideration for
> > ratification, in a difficult spot.
>
> If you think that an alternative statement should be made instead, then
> propose that alternative and if enough others support that (the process
> of "seconding") then it will appear as another option on the voting
> ballot.
>
Given the rush to shorten the discussion period and make it a simple
yes/no vote, it does not seem likely that a well-worded statement could
be put together, seconded, and then discussed.
Regards,
-Roberto
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Roberto C. Sánchez
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