Re: First call for votes for the Lenny release GR

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 09:50:29AM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:33:27PM +0000, Peter Palfrader wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote:
>> 
>> > > Boycotting is unlikely to prevent all ballot options from reaching the
>> > 
>> > Yeah Boycotting is silly, that's why I've voted for FD first, my
>> > "preferred" choices second, the rest third.
>> 
>> So in effect you prefer the options that do not require supermajority to
>> those that do.  Or at least make it more likely that they will win.
>
>Sadly, it's a necessary side effect yes.
>
>> This ballot sucks.
>
>News @ 11.
>Especially since a few options require supermajority out of thin air.
>
>Is there someone on the plane here to do what's needed with the
>secretary? If the DPL isn't willing to take any action here (and I'm
>really annoyed that despite repeated questions about it he never showed
>up in the discussion[0]), I believe I'm willing to start a GR (*SIGH*)
>about it[1].

I've been talking with Manoj already, in private to try and avoid
flaming. I specifically asked him to delay this vote until the
numerous problems with it were fixed, and it was started anyway. I'm
*really* not happy with that, and I'm following through now.

>[0] There are at least ways to tell "Hey I don't want to troll, but my
>    position on the subject is $foo and I'm currently discussing it
>    privately with him" or whatever, that at least let us know what is
>    going on. Right now we see blatant power abuse, with the DPL being
>    completely OK with it. Sooo nice.

Quite a number of people have contacted me privately, both in person
and by mail, to complain about this ballot. There have been some
delays (day job suddenly gettting *incredibly* busy :-(), but rest
assured that I am not happy with how things are going at the moment
and I'm doing something about it. I haven't yet responded to all those
people, and for that I apologise.

-- 
Steve McIntyre, Debian Project Leader <leader@debian.org>