* Marc Singer <e...@buici.com> [090812 03:12]: > 2009/8/11 Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> > > > [deletia] > > > > I do not trust a majority of people ? regardless of the people ? to make > > an appropriate managerial decision. We have people in charge, who take a > > lot of time to remain informed of the status of various subsystems in > > Debian so that they can make informed decisions. If we replace them by a > > majority?s vote, you can expect the decisions to be wrong. > > > > It is also challenging to get a large group of people well enough informed > to make a decision worthy of the effort.
While it is challenging to inform a large group of people, that is in my eyes rather a reason to make it a vote: If you do not inform people well enough so that they would vote for the best solution, they will not recognize the best solution as that, so they will be unhappy with those doing the decisions and be frustrated, leaving or working against the solution. So if you cannot get the people affected by the decision to back up the decision (and if it is only in a way of "X I trust, X said Y") then not doing a vote is the wrong way to go: Better risk a suboptimal decision and people supporting that to having decided an optimal solution that cannot work due to lack of support or even no longer having people doing the better solutions in charge as noone likes their decisions. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org