Hi Jonathan, Jonathan Carter <j...@debian.org> writes:
> On 2021/04/18 13:20, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> The details of the results are available at: >> https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002 > > Thanks for all your work on this vote, I believe that you made excellent > decisions as project secretary and it seems that all views that were > expressed on -vote were well represented in the vote, so again, I think > I can talk on behalf of the project here when I'm giving special thanks > for your work. I would like to congratulate you for becoming our next DPL. > However, I don't think we're quite in a position to pat ourselves on > the back here. This vote has once again highlighted some problems in > our methods for making decisions. I think that we should set up a > working group to specifically deal with voting, polling and > project-wide decision making so that we can deal more efficiently with > problems in the future. > > While this vote caught a lot of heat, essentially it's quite a trivial > vote. Ultimately it had become a question of if and how we should > respond to an external situation. I think that as Debian grows, as the > free software eco-system grows, and as software gets ever more ingrained > in our every day life, the questions and problems we're going to face > will become increasingly complex and that we should adapt to be able to > deal with those as a project. > > Can we go ahead and set up such a working group? I'm thinking that it > would involve mailing list discussions, video calls, sessions at > DebConf, probably at least one GR, research on different voting methods > that could be used, voting software, etc. Fortunately, we're not the > only organisation in the world facing issues like these and we can make > use of some external experts too. Although all of this will also take > some time and effort so I'd really like to have you on board as one of > the drivers of this project and also others who have a keen interest in > this. What do you think? The winning option "Debian will not issue a public statement on this issue" implies that the majority of DDs is not interested in such non-technical affairs. Such a working group will distract us from achieving technical excellence. Yours, Benda
