On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote: > Another purpose, that I've seen recently a few times, is people > proposing *several* discrete options for a ballot, carefully > phrasing them to be distinct in order to clarify the meaning of the > vote's result.
If no one is going to rank those options highly, there's no purpose in proposing them. I could see someone drafting them as an option for someone else who planned on ranking them highly to actually propose and second. > According to Don's statement above, this is not a good reason to > propose options. I disagree; I think it's commendable and in the > spirit of his earlier statement (in the same message) to strive for > clarity and precision in the ballot options. Options that (almost) no one actually supports don't increase clarity. Our voting system isn't a survey of developers; it's a means of making decisions. Don Armstrong -- Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org