On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:40:30PM +0100, Frederic Lehobey wrote: > And what about having the election body enlarged to the complete (or > voluntary) developers crowd with a permanent and _easy_ way of voting. [...] > Note that I do not want to replace debate by voting. I simply prefer > to replace endless (and exhausting) discussions by decisions.
Everybody voting on everything is not a direct solution for that problem; having someone break the cycle of endless discussion at the right time would be quite sufficient. Having soc-ctte (to whom people could appeal to get this done) would go a long way towards that fixing that issue. > If I understand well, the currently preferred way to solve conflicts > (even minor ones) is first trying to reach a consensus among the > developers through mailing lists, and in a last resort, in case of a > failure to build a consensus, calling for ctte or DPL mediation or > even start a GR. See, there you identified the major leap - we either have a normal process where everyone gets along anyway, or we have the 'last resort' options. We *don't* currently have a ctte for social problems, so the last resolt is either the DPL, meaning bothering one single person, or GR, meaning bothering everybody. Both of those options are inefficient beyond reproach. > A (free software) tool for making direct voting and decision taking > easy is developed there: > http://www.demexp.org/main/doku.php?id=english > It could be of interest to the Debian project as a whole (that has > been a source of inspiration by its voting method) Well, direct democracy would be a radical change. I'm not convinced that you should lump these two issues together - please start a new thread instead (what you just did is actually referred to as 'thread stealing'). > or for decision taking in sub-committees (as the soc-ctte at discussion > there). That might be more applicable, but we'd first have to have soc-ctte. :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]