Re: What do Open Source Projects need?

Patrick Frank wrote: On 6/4/07, *Steve Langasek* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Are you a paid troll, or do you do this on a volunteer basis? If you aim to be humorous I find the situation of Sven Luther not suitable for that. In case this is your way of dealing with

Re: What do Open Source Projects need?

On 6/4/07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are you a paid troll, or do you do this on a volunteer basis? If you aim to be humorous I find the situation of Sven Luther not suitable for that. In case this is your way of dealing with with my opinion, then I have to add you to the list

Re: What do Open Source Projects need?

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 02:31:39AM +0200, Patrick Frank wrote: > Such public statements are not surprising since Sam Hocevar > was elected as new Debian Project Leader back in April after > many public defacements were targeted at Sven Luther by him > during the electoral campaign. Are you a paid

What do Open Source Projects need?

Open Source projects need for sure multiple things to be beneficial to the project members as well as to communities of users. And without skilled programmers who do a lot of development work there would not be Free Software to share. But do we need people with special priviledges in responsible

Re: Social committee proposal

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 10:30:24PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Also, I can already see opposition to a committee which is only elected > once, and can then change its own membership at will, while retaining > all of its the powers that the originally elected members were given. > That simply sound

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

le Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 04:48:49AM -0700 par Steve Langasek : > On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:22:06AM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > > Ireland uses STV, which is not a Condorcet voting system. > - there have been an experiment in France during recent election, conducted by researchers from p

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 11:22:06AM +0100, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > > Ireland uses STV, which is not a Condorcet voting system. > Although true, from a voter's perspective they're pretty much > identical: >From the ignorant voter's perspective, yes. Given your previous post, I understand com

Re: Range Voting - the simpler better alternative to Condorcet voting

> Ireland uses STV, which is not a Condorcet voting system. Although true, from a voter's perspective they're pretty much identical: rank the candidates, any left unranked are implicitly at the bottom. Furthermore, I would dare to venture that even our sophisticated Debian Developer voters by-and