On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:27:30PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:37:07PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > > So far, people seem to be taking the position that it will better to > > > first vote on whether or not we're going to move in this direction (a > > > super majority decision) and then, once that decision is made to focus > > > on the details. > > Cut first, measure later? > An interestingly reversed metaphor. > It is the process of voting which will enable us to measure what we want > to do. How we *act* upon that measurement is the "cutting".
Yes, and making a resolution is the process of acting. Changing our social contract is acting. Removing non-free is acting. > Passing a GR, in and of itself, does nothing tangible, Tell me you're seriously claiming that passing a GR that resolves to remove non-free and amend the social contract will result in no tangible changes. (By contrast, running a poll is an act of measurement, as is John's popcon stats, as is setting up a separate nonfree.org repository and seeing how much ongoing effort that is to maintain, as is working out what the consequences of the decision -- particularly wrt contrib -- are in detail.) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. Linux.conf.au 2004 -- Because we can. http://conf.linux.org.au/ -- Jan 12-17, 2004
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