On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 02:05:20PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 11:30:48AM +0800, Benda Xu wrote: > > 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. > > The vote in fact shows the opposite. That interpretation of the result > would be true if the majority of people voted for that as their first > preference. They did not: it was the most-agreed upon preference between > two ideologically opposite factions. The majority of voting DDs > expressed a strong preference one way or the other.
I agree with all of the above. I also can't help feel that the result was probably the best one that could have been reached for the project as a whole. In which case, the voting system arguably did its job. The division was not caused by our decision making process; it was caused by the fact that this was naturally a question for which there was nothing like unaminity amongst the voting members. It is unclear that any change in our voting procedures could have made things any better. Cheers, - Ted