Le samedi 10 avril 2021 à 09:00:51-0700, Elana Hashman a écrit : > On Fri, 09 Apr 2021 13:12:26 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > There has been increasing harassment of people based on what they are > > expected to vote on the rms gr. > > People on both sides have expressed increasing discomfort with the idea > > of voting in public with the entire world knowing how they voted. > > > > I argued on another list that it would be appropriate for the DPL (with > > the concurrence of the secretary) to make the vote secret using > > constitution section 5.1 (3). > > I would like to state that I disagree with retroactively making a public > vote private. I voted with the assumption this would be a public vote > and as such, as is common on Debian GRs, I have already published my > vote. > > It was very clear when the vote was called that this would be a public > vote. At that point, a number of people had already received significant > harassment, so I don't believe this is a new concern. > > To reduce harassment, we could possibly release the tally at a later > date, rather than immediately; say, no sooner than 3 months but no later > than one year. > > I do not support making the vote private, and I do not want it to seem > like that there is consensus that it should be. If the concern is "the > entire world", I would be okay with the tally being published > internally. > > Thanks Sam for raising this. After a careful thinking, I agree with Elena's opinion and would rather not make the vote private while it already has started. Of course I won't make a mess of if it becomes private/secret. But I think it is not the best course of action. -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue GPG: 9AE0 4D98 6400 E3B6 7528 F493 0D44 2664 1949 74E2 It's far easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
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