Lucas asked > Dear questioners, > > How much time do you think DPL candidates should spend answering those > questions? :)
Probably about half of the time it currently takes ;-) > More seriously, [...] Maybe we should try to have some of those > discussions on a more regular basis, outside DPL elections? I think that would be healthy and probably make the DPL elections easier for people. Personally, I posted http://www.news.software.coop/in-praise-of-consensus/1445/ where (among other points) I suggest that the debian project misses a good test for consensus (GRs seem an expensive and heavy one and there's significant pressure against using them) or a common understanding of how strong a consensus we want (like: is it more or less than the established majority sizes?). That makes many discussions a lot longer than they really need to be, where it seems either there are a few people basically in agreement bikeshedding, or there's an irreconcilable minority who ought to stand aside and let the remainder develop a compromise. So as the discussions are long, there's a reluctance to start them, which has a number of side-effects, including these Big Questions to DPL Candidates which maybe aren't really much about the DPL vote. I'd welcome a DPL who led work on this aspect of the project management. I suspect that until there are a couple of minor tweaks to the project, it's difficult to reach sufficient consensus if the DPL's against it. Hope that explains, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1ugroj-000158...@bletchley.towers.org.uk