On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:51:06PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 09:04:02AM +0100, Richard Braakman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 06:19:18PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:43:52PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > > Assume you had the same intentions I described above: that you'd try as > > > > hard as possible to get a vote on the issue done, and then try as hard > > > > as you could to make sure the result of that vote was effected. How > > > > would you answer your question?
(intermediate text snipped) > > > if i happened to be in favour of removing non-free then i'd answer "Yes" > > > and optionally follow it up with comments on what i intended to do about > > > it. > > > > That wasn't the question either. > > this one WAS the question. It is possible to be in favour of one thing, but still intend to implement the other if the project votes that way. A possibility that Anthony's description states but yours does not allow for. > given that the question was a "hypothetical" and not a real inquiry > about my intentions, i see no problem with responding in a manner which > addresses all the significant hypothetical alternatives. Your "alternatives" were about being in favour, not in favour, or not caring. But your question was about "intent to take action". That's a different axis. If you wanted to know whether Branden was in favour of removing non-free, you could have asked that. Let me make the situation a bit sharper so that you have less wriggle-room. I present this position: I believe that it is important that the non-free archive issue is resolved. The proposals regarding it should be formalized, voted on, and the outcome implemented. I intend to take action to make this happen within the year, regardless of what the outcome is. And your question: do you intend to take any action to have non-free removed from the debian archives? (this is a yes or no question, but feel free to make comments after answering yes or no). Now, how would you represent that position in the format you specify? Richard Braakman
