Re: Announcing new decision making procedures for Debian
Hi Enrico!
This is truly brilliant.
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:52:53AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello Debian Members,
>
> For some time, we have been having systemic issues that make GR
> discussions painful. GRs themselves shouldn't be painful, and don't need
> to be. Having a chilling effect to using GRs hurts Debian, and as a
> project we need a way to poll for consensus on project choices and
> directions more often than not.
>
> To overcome the current problems with GR discussions, we introduce a
> replacement weighted democratic system. The new procedure is this:
>
> * A developer proposes an issue with a signed message on
> debian-vote@lists.debian.org .
>
> * Anyone can express their consent or dissent by replying to the
> message.
>
> * When the discussion eventually dies down, the Debian Secretary will
> review all messages and pronounce the winner.
>
Right here is where I began to get a sense that this might something
other than what it appears on its face.
>
> This method makes the fair assumption that the energy spent in writing
> messages to the discussion is related to the amount of insight a person
> has on an issue, and how much they care about it. In particular:
>
> * The more messages a person writes, the more the person cares, and the
> more their opinion will be taken into account: people who only write
> every once in a while, clearly don't think the issue is important
> enough to deserve their real effort.
>
> * The more strongly worded replies are, the more the person cares, and
> the more their opinion will be taken into account: people who waste
And right here I figured out that this is an April fool's message.
> time with long, polite, well reasoned messages, clearly didn't care
> enough to get emotional about an issue.
>
> * The longer a person keeps writing, the more the person cares, and the
> more their opinion will be taken into account: people who give up,
> clearly didn't care enough to make themselves heard.
>
> To avoid confusion, we'll maintain the same acronym as before. The new
> system will be called Debian Grandiose Reflection.
>
> The first GR using this scheme will concern the introduction of this
> voting scheme for the future.
>
>
Quite a masterful work. I am quite impressed by the effort you put
forth.
Thanks very much for this. It provided a much appreciated hearty laugh
for me.
Regards,
-Roberto
--
Roberto C. Sánchez
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