On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 01:09:27PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > Colin Watson writes ("Re: CTTE and Developer Buy-in [Re: Bug#727708: init > system other points, and conclusion]"): > > Is there any useful way we could take a reasonably quick non-binding > > straw poll of developers? Sort of an "if we voted a particular way, is > > it likely that we would be on the wrong side of developer opinion". > > I think this is very unlikely to produce useful answers. Non-binding > polls have the serious problem that everyone knows they're not > binding, so many people will simply not bother. And the result of > such an exercise is likely to influence our thinking more than it > ought. > > In this context I want to say again thata I think that direct > democracy is a terrible way to make a technical decision. Our > thousands of contributors don't have the time to do the reading and > research needed to make a good decision. > > And, despite the fact that the decision has become very politicised > (to some extent along the lines of preexisting camps of strongly > disagreeing contributors), I think it is primarily a technical > decision.
Perhaps you're right. I guess I'm trying to get a sense of how many people there are who have made a considered technical evaluation but who haven't felt it worth wading into the giant mail threads. But maybe that's simply infeasible. > If the vast majority of developers hate our decision, the GR process > would be the right way to fix it. In that case finding K Developers > to sponsor the GR would be trivial. > > Obviously that would be embarrassing for us and substantially damage > our credibility. But I don't think it's at all likely. Do you ? I don't know. That's part of what I'd like to find out. :-) My concern is not so much embarrassment as wasting the project's time and democratic effort unnecessarily. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ctte-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20140102131948.ga26...@riva.ucam.org