Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On ke, 2007-08-08 at 18:47 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > The main issue from where I sit is allowing enough time for nominees > to post position statements and to have enough time for those position > statements digested by the electorate, and enough initial discussion > to occur so that interestin

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007, MJ Ray wrote: > The organisers and most time slot limitations could be identified > before nominations close and the possibilities announced. The > organisers were already being identified before nominations closed > this year, after all:- The problem is really that figuring o

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0100, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. [...] > > This would probably mean that organizing the debate might have > to go; since the time period for identif

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0100, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > This is an amendment to aj's proposal shown at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/07/msg00178.html > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL Summary: reduce the campaign-only period > to one week. > The change to paragraph four

Sensible combinations, was: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All we would need is someone to combine the two, get enough seconds, and > the combination of both ideas will appear on the ballot. So you would > get four options, nicely matching the boolean table of the two > ``independent'' options. Yes, that

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 10:37 -0500, David Moreno Garza wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:12 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL > > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. > > > > The change to paragraph four is replaced by: > > 4. For [-three weeks-] {+one week+

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread John H. Robinson, IV
Simon Richter wrote: > > Which will probably mean that we will need options for this amendment in > combination with other amendments for voting. Does that need to be > spelled out, will that just magically happen or is that the most stupid > idea you have ever heard? All we would need is someone

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread Simon Richter
Hello, MJ Ray wrote: > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. > > The change to paragraph four is replaced by: > 4. For [-three weeks-] {+one week+} after that no more candidates >may be nominated; candidates should use this time for >

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 04:12:15PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > This is an amendment to aj's proposal shown at > http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/07/msg00178.html > > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. > > The change to paragraph four is replace

Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread David Moreno Garza
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:12 +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > AMENDMENT PROPOSAL > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. > > The change to paragraph four is replaced by: > 4. For [-three weeks-] {+one week+} after that no more candidates >may be nominated; candidates sho

Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

2007-08-08 Thread MJ Ray
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is an amendment to aj's proposal shown at http://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2007/07/msg00178.html AMENDMENT PROPOSAL Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. The change to paragraph four is replaced by: 4. For [-thre