On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 09:47:17AM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > JFTR, I don't think that "a quick and easy poll" is always a > sufficient way to resolve issues. I think one of the strength of > Debian is that we try to analyze the situation before we do a > decision.
I absolutely agree. On one hand, that is why I've mentioned a poll and not a GR. More importantly, there are some technical decisions that ultimately arrive at an aut-aut choice, e.g. the choice of a default value which is changeable by the user anyhow. I believe the case discussed in the post you followed-up to is one of them. As other choices of default values, what we've discussed reminds me very much of when we switched from "nvi" to "vim-tiny" in the base system [1] (one of the few cases in which we did use a poll, FWIW). The whole point of a poll is to give a non-binding representation of opinions in some aut-aut choices; such a representation can ultimately be even ignored, but at least we will make it visible. Hope this clarifies, Cheers. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/12/msg00796.html -- Stefano Zacchiroli -o- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 z...@{upsilon.cc,pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ Dietro un grande uomo c'è ..| . |. Et ne m'en veux pas si je te tutoie sempre uno zaino ...........| ..: |.... Je dis tu à tous ceux que j'aime
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