Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> writes: > Thanks! That's a really good question, and one that we should also > include on the GR. I'd split my option 5 into two:
> 5. Include non-free firmware but do not enable it by default > 6. Include non-free firmware and enable it by default > In either case, we'd make the opposite choice available via a d-i kernel > command line option and a boot menu option. I think that makes sense? I agree with this option split, but that reminds me of a different procedural note. While I recognize and respect the desire to create a comprehensive ballot, I'm still going to advocate for proposing a GR only with the options that the person proposing the GR would vote above NOTA, and possibly only your preferred options. There are a couple of reasons for this. One is that the people who prefer your disfavored options may have their own way of wording them that's slightly different than what you might believe they would want to say, and it's awkward to update other people's ballot options. The other, somewhat more technical reason is that I expect this GR to require a 3:1 majority for some options, and mixing 3:1 and 1:1 majority options on the same GR can be rather confusing. We may end up needing to do that anyway for this vote, but I think it would be a good idea to avoid creating the problem unless someone steps forward and proposes a 1:1 option that they really want to win. (That said, I think there's a big exception, which is that if you've canvassed a bunch of people who may not want to try to craft their own ballot options, and developed options to reflect their views, I think that's a fine approach and a good reason to propose options that aren't your personal preference.) As a side note, I don't remember exactly how this worked before, but under the current constitutional rules the original GR proposer doesn't have a special ability to put a bunch of options on the original ballot. You start with one option, and then you can add more options but they all need to be sponsored independently. So that also pushes in this direction of ballot construction. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
