Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:22:19PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > Campaigning on debian-vote *and* canvassing for help? Is this really > > what aj meant by "summarise their plans for their term"? > > No, this is just answering a question. Do you suggest that he should > have delayed the answer until campaining would be allowed?
Yes. Candidates should be organised enough to defer a task a few days. > > If the project is minded to allow such discussion during nominations, > > we should shorten the discussion-only period, instead of claiming > > there's some convention that campaigning is limited to the campaign > > period. > > I don't really remember the exact periods, and what is supposed to > happen when. (And I don't care enough to look it up.) What is the > reason we would want a campainless period during nominations? I don't > really see any benefit. [...] I want a limit on the election campaign time to try to limit the inevitable politicking from spilling over into more of the year. The benefit would be less time spent on the election, so available for other work. > > That would also reward early nominations and may help avoid candidates > > like Marc Brockschmidt putting the time into standing from fear of > > being left with only one unacceptable late nomination. > > I don't see how that would result from not campaining during the > nomination period (or before it, for that matter). [...] Sorry, it seems I was unclear: shortening the campaign-only time should be accompanied by acknowledging that candidates may campaign during the whole election, as some have done for a few years. So, the sooner a candidate is nominated, the sooner they could start campaigning and that would be a reward for early nominations. > > Propose it and I'll second. > > I'm not sure what you want to see proposed, but I think I don't want to > do it. ;-) Anyway, why don't you make the proposal yourself? Because I want to see if there's any support before spending effort on drafting. Also, I think a proposal by someone else is more likely to succeed. Finally, I made a similar proposal last year in http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/08/msg00102.html but it only got three seconds, amid some claims about campaigning being limited by convention (!) and debate organisation. Hope that clarifies, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]