On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:09:11AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Me; I would like to have a better handle on the reults of > whatever actions are the logical conclusion of this opinion poll -- > and even build upon the possible directions the project could go > while we are asking for peoples input.
Umm, that's why we have a proposal and discussion system. People have had plenty of time to express any opinions they might have on this - and I've been following them carefully, and none of them have said anything appreciably more meaningful than "I want to keep non-free" or "I want to drop non-free". If there were evidence of the existence of other significant opinions, sure, we could write them into the ballot. If any appear, we still can. But there hasn't been, and I don't buy the silent majority theory, since it's almost impossible to get Debian developers to shut up at the best of times. All I have seen is vague handwaving along the lines of "There may be people who would prefer to do something else [but I can't think of anything I'd rather do than keep non-free]". > If you want opinions, far less work would be entailed in > setting up a poll on debian planet. And no meaningful results. This is not an opinion poll, it is a statement of intent from a group of people who get to decide what they're going to do. As to the rest, I don't see that playing politics will serve any useful purpose here. I don't think that it will significantly affect the outcome; most people probably already know how they want to vote on this issue. Thus far, by refusing to play that game, I have effectively defeated all the people who want to say "Oh, this GR is just about (zealotry|resource usage|whatever)". There simply isn't a right answer here other than "What we want to do". -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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