On 21/03/09 at 15:47 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Hi, > > I have felt for some time that the low requirement for seconds on General > Resolutions is something that should be fixed. Currently it needs 5 > supporters to get any idea laid before every Debian Developer to vote > on. While this small number was a good thing at the time Debian was > smaller, I think it is no longer the case. We currently have over 1000 > Developers, and even if not everyone is active all the time, there > should be a little higher barrier before all of them have to deal with > something, effectively taking away time from their usual Debian work.
I can't think of any vote in the (recent) past that shouldn't have happened. Can you point at one? > While one could go and define another arbitary number, like 10 or 15 or > whatever, I propose to move this to something that is dependent on the > actual number of Developers, as defined by the secretary, and to > increase its value from the current 5 to something higher. My personal > goal is 2Q there, which would mean 30 supporters. If you can't find 30 > supporters, out of 1000 Developers, your idea is most probably not worth > taking up time of everyone else. I'd like to see other options too, for, say Q/3, Q/2, 10, 15. This would allow us to compromise on what people think is necessary, without being restricted by your arbitrary choice of Q and 2Q. Could you add those to your proposed resolution, so people can second all of them at the same time and reduce the number of emails on -v...@? > As the discussion in December also told us, we should vote on different > options than just one, so I will also send in an amendment. My personal > goal would be to end up with a vote having options similar to the ones > pasted below as an example, but if someone feels like having a "Keep it > like it is, no discusssion" is needed, I would accept such an amendment > too. (Not that I think its neccessary, for me FD means that, but still). I would like to have such an option as well. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: lu...@nussbaum.fr GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org