Hi Kurt On 2021/04/18 13:20, Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx wrote: > The details of the results are available at: > https://www.debian.org/vote/2021/vote_002
Thanks for all your work on this vote, I believe that you made excellent decisions as project secretary and it seems that all views that were expressed on -vote were well represented in the vote, so again, I think I can talk on behalf of the project here when I'm giving special thanks for your work. However, I don't think we're quite in a position to pat ourselves on the back here. This vote has once again highlighted some problems in our methods for making decisions. I think that we should set up a working group to specifically deal with voting, polling and project-wide decision making so that we can deal more efficiently with problems in the future. While this vote caught a lot of heat, essentially it's quite a trivial vote. Ultimately it had become a question of if and how we should respond to an external situation. I think that as Debian grows, as the free software eco-system grows, and as software gets ever more ingrained in our every day life, the questions and problems we're going to face will become increasingly complex and that we should adapt to be able to deal with those as a project. Can we go ahead and set up such a working group? I'm thinking that it would involve mailing list discussions, video calls, sessions at DebConf, probably at least one GR, research on different voting methods that could be used, voting software, etc. Fortunately, we're not the only organisation in the world facing issues like these and we can make use of some external experts too. Although all of this will also take some time and effort so I'd really like to have you on board as one of the drivers of this project and also others who have a keen interest in this. What do you think? -Jonathan
