On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:39:23AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > Adrian, > > I believe that you are misrepresenting the outcome of -004. The proposal > to > postpone the changes till after the release, then reinstate them, defeated > option D (rescind -003) by a 2:1 majority. The only options I can see that > D defeated by a 2.3:1 majority are option F (do nothing at all) and Further > Discussion, which all the voters had been told would result in a further > delay of the Sarge release.
A 2.3:1 majority preferred option D to revert -003 over option F to reaffirm -003. Rereading the results, I get your point about option B compared to D, making the whole issue even more mysterious. Could anyone give a definitive answer to the following questions: - Did -003 contain real changes [1] or didn't it change anything? - How is it possible to happen that only a small amount of the Debian developers (less than one out of four) participates in a GR vote, the consequences of this GR do not become widely known until after the GR, and one month later, corrections to this GR are widely accepted? - If -003 changed anything, were there Debian developers who mistakenly agreed to -003 because of it's obfuscated "Editorial amendments" title? If the intention of GRs was to express the opinion of the Debian developers, the whole -003 and -004 mess seems to be a way how to not do it. > Daniel cu Adrian [1] as stated in the accepted option B of -004 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]