Several people have asked me about this in private, so I thought it was worth sending a public message about my understanding of the current status.
I think those of us who have been active on the discussion have mostly stopped writing more because we had started repeating ourselves, or were in danger of doing so, and were getting off into minutia. Ian's and my discussion of wording for one of the ballot options was at the point where it needed input from other people, so I was holding off on discussing it pending that (and I think Ian was as well). I also don't know if Keith, Don, or Andreas wanted to weigh in to the general discussion. Remaining work that I'm aware of, beyond any further discussion that might be sparked by the people who haven't yet participated, is mostly around hashing out what the ballot options will be. I think we have most of the framework set up in response to Ian's draft language (thank you again, Ian!), but there are details that are uncertain and would benefit from more discussion. We will also need wording for a ballot option to throw the question to a GR if we want to have that on the ballot. I think the general feeling of those who have commented on that approach is that it's basically an alternative to voting further discussion rather than anyone's primary choice. Speaking only personally, one of my occasional problems with Debian's voting system is that it's very unclear in some cases what "futher discussion" *means*. It clearly means "we're not going to make a decision," but in cases where we have to make a decision, it's sometimes a weird way of phrasing the status quo. I like having the "have a GR" option on the ballot next to further discussion because it provides a clear path forward for the project to make a decision, whereas in this case further discussion doesn't really. That effectively reserves further discussion as the voting option for people who really think we should not make a decision right now, as opposed to thinking we're in the wrong decision-making process or feeling like the project should make a decision now even if the technical committee can't reach consensus. On a personal note, I've also gone much more quiet because I was spending four to eight hours a day on the discussion, something that I could only do because I was on vacation. Since I'm now back to work, I have to drastically reduce the amount of time I can spend on the discussion. Thankfully, the major time investment portion seems past, but I thought it was worth mentioning in case anyone was worried about slow responses. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
