Le vendredi 02 avril 2021 à 16:57:28-0400, Sam Hartman a écrit : > >>>>> "Mathias" == Mathias Behrle <mbeh...@debian.org> writes: > > Mathias> I don't get that. Is this really common sense that FD > Mathias> means/meant "preserve status quo"? For me voting this > Mathias> option definitely should mean that further discussion on > Mathias> the topic is needed. > > > So, that is the denotation--that's what it literally means. > In cases where things are thoroughly discussed to death, especially > where it appears like all the options are on the table, it may well be > that there is not momentum for further discussion, and FD acts a lot > more like "no". > It's a kind of no that allows someone to try and find a future option. > It's more like "no not this moment," than "no and it would be rude to > try and discuss more." > > But for a two option situation, option A do the thing and option B FD, > FD probably does map to no fairly well. > > In this situation, I think we'd have to look for the spread of votes. > FD winning would probably either mean that we actually need to have > further discussion (if a majority of people seemed to prefer one of the > options to others, even though they ranked it below FD), or the project > is too split to decide (if there were major splits below FD). > > In the first situation, I'd interpret it to mean that there was one > direction that most people tended toward but that the specific option > presented was not good enough. > And so if there were energy, it would make sense to refine that option. > > But in the second situation where there were significant splits in > support below FD, probably we ought conclude we don't have support for a > common direction. > > So, yeah, FD is complicated:-)
I'd rather have a None of the Above default option all the time along with FD. It'd probably help. -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue GPG: 9AE0 4D98 6400 E3B6 7528 F493 0D44 2664 1949 74E2 It's far easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
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