On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:56:50PM +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: >On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 01:24:13PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:06:00AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: >> >The 2-week voting period made sense when the Constitution was written, >> >as intermittent internet access was much more likely back then. But >> >today, it's probably less justified. >> >> Do you want to disenfranchise DDs who are on vacation? > >Even if we keep the two-week voting period, there'll be people who >can't vote because they're away exactly those two weeks, even if it's >fewer of them. Knowing the voting dates beforehand would help with >planning.
ACK. >That said, I am in favour of keeping the existing voting period. All >the energetic parts of the DPL election process mostly cease by the >time the discussion period ends, so a longer voting period doesn't >cause us to spend more effort on the DPL election. The only benefit >from shortening the voting period would be to reduce load on >www.debian.org from people who keep refreshing the results page to see >if the results are known yet. Thanks - that matches my own thinking, but better articulated. :-) -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com "I've only once written 'SQL is my bitch' in a comment. But that code is in use on a military site..." -- Simon Booth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140328152019.gb25...@einval.com