Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-02 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es [090101 23:36]: The people who do care about such an option winning have at least as much freedom to decide as they did before the option was proposed. They can decide whether they want to propose their own wording, or to second the wording as already

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-02 Thread MJ Ray
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Wouter Verhelst wrote: In general, I believe it is okay to second a ballot option that you do not plan to rank first if you feel it is an important matter that you want to see resolved. The statement I second this proposal only

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-02 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009, MJ Ray wrote: Sorry - I'm with Wouter Verhelst on this. Having options on the ballot that only a small minority of DDs support can help resolve conflicts: it lays them to rest, demonstrating they fail in the wider DD population, If an option can't get seconds enough to

Re: Discussion: Possible GR: Enhance requirements for General Resolutions

2009-01-02 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 31/12/08 at 12:35 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: Don Armstrong dijo [Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 04:18:02PM -0800]: (...) You should not be proposing or seconding an option that you don't plan on ranking first. (or high, as others have said in this thread) I am not sure about this... Sometimes