Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:52:03PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: WV Who's to say what's valid and what isn't? When I originally read (and WV agreed with) the SC, there was nobody to tell me that the way I read it WV at the time wasn't considered valid. There was also nobody who pointed WV me at

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Not likely. The last vote determined what 3/4 of the voters thought, and people weren't willing to let that be the end of it. Thomas -- To

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:27:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Not likely. The last vote determined what 3/4 of the voters thought,

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That was because the voters were 20% of the developers, as you well know. I'm also hoping that we've engaged enough of the developers that we might get a representative vote this time. I see. Is that what the Constitution says? If you don't like who

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Ben Burton
I see. Is that what the Constitution says? If you don't like who won, then just keep proposing GRs, claiming that not enough people voted last time? When you lose a vote, raise as big a stink as possible and have more votes? You really think this is a good procedure? FWIW, they _are_

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Frank Küster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) schrieb: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That was because the voters were 20% of the developers, as you well know. I'm also hoping that we've engaged enough of the developers that we might get a representative vote this time. I see. Is

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Jochen Voss
Hello Manoj, On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:12:52PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: An easier way is to look at the votes when they come out. Anyone who votes further discussion in the top 3 is not interested in compromise or consensus, and has decided My way or the Highway. Sorry, but I

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:57:20AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That was because the voters were 20% of the developers, as you well know. I'm also hoping that we've engaged enough of the developers that we might get a representative vote this

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread MJ Ray
On 2004-06-24 08:31:49 +0100 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was because the voters were 20% of the developers, [...] Consequently, supporters of the last GR have been accused of gerrymandering because the vote ended up in spring break for some people. I would like to note in

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:12:52PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: An easier way is to look at the votes when they come out. Anyone who votes further discussion in the top 3 is not interested in compromise or consensus, and has decided My way or the Highway. On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:46:53 -0400, Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: An easier way is to look at the votes when they come out. Anyone who votes further discussion in the top 3 is not interested in compromise or consensus, and has decided My way or the Highway. Or it could mean that he

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:19:04 +0100, Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello Manoj, On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:12:52PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: An easier way is to look at the votes when they come out. Anyone who votes further discussion in the top 3 is not interested in compromise

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Clint Adams
Which is the same thing as My way or the highway. I like this one option, see, and would rather do nothing than even consider any of them thar oppossing view, no siree. Are you telling us that if there were a GR consisting only of undesirable options, you would rank them all above

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2004-06-24 Thread Conyerstty
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Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:59:10 -0400, Clint Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Which is the same thing as My way or the highway. I like this one option, see, and would rather do nothing than even consider any of them thar oppossing view, no siree. Are you telling us that if there were a GR

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:19:04 +0100, Jochen Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: In my opinion the best strategy [*] with our current voting system is to rank further discussion second, directly after your favourite option. This slightly increases the chances of your favourite option winning (the

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:27:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Not likely. The last vote determined what 3/4 of the voters thought, and people weren't willing to let that be the

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:31:49 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:27:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:50:58 +1000, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:57:20AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That was because the voters were 20% of the developers, as you well know. I'm also hoping that we've

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 09:02:28PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:27:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Not likely. The last vote determined what 3/4 of

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 03:55:40PM -0500, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: I have no interest in blaming people for the present state of affairs -- not AJ, not my co-sponsors of 003 -- only in getting things situated so we can get back to our job of releasing the most

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread David N. Welton
Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nice spin. Kinda like Not allowing me to be a bigot is a pretty biased idea -- it discriminates against bigots. Disagree and you are compared to a bigot? So now it's your way or the highway, to borrow a phrase? Manoj, you are not calming this

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Ben Burton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see. Is that what the Constitution says? If you don't like who won, then just keep proposing GRs, claiming that not enough people voted last time? When you lose a vote, raise as big a stink as possible and have more votes? You really think this

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Josip Rodin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 11:27:07PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: The current vote will determine what the majority of voters think. Hopefully that will be the end of it. Not likely. The last vote determined what 3/4 of the voters thought,

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Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:57:08AM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: I don't know what it is about your style of comunication, but it reminds me more of debate club than rational discussion in search of a common ground. The implication here presumably being that illogical and invalid arguments are

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 02:35:59PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 07:45:53PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: I find it to be more like fishing for consensus, by trying as many possibilities as possible (hence buckshot). It really could have been better refined (if

Re: Discussions in Debian

2004-06-24 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:25:28AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: [You have quite neatly just demonstrated what argumentum ad hominem actually is, though]. Do you have that phrase on a macro key yet? Bored, Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

Re: What your ballot should look like if you're in favor of releasing sarge

2004-06-24 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 03:15:22PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 05:42:04AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: That's just so totally American. Now there's the ad hominem attack you keep referring to. No, that would be You are American, therefore your argument is wrong.