On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:14:42PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 11:26:59AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > Le mar 5 septembre 2006 09:44, Anthony Towns a ??crit : > > Those polls should never ever drive our choices. I've raised my > > concerns with respect to those polls on -devel, and even asked you as > > the DPL directly[1], mail that you swept away with disdain[2]. > > I replied to it... If you wanted more information you could've followed > up to the reply... > > > 1. I'm utterly frustrated with your ways. The mail on d-d-a could not > > have any other answer that "please release etch in time", that's > > something a perfect moron could have predicted without a doubt. > > 26% of the people on the forums said supporting hardware requiring > non-free firmware was the highest priority; another 15% said not shipping > sourceless firmware in main was; that's 41% all up or 86 people.
For etch though. > In the other poll, 18% of people (36 people) said delaying etch was the > right solution. Again for etch, not forever after. > > 2. Your proposal does not reflect what many of the DDs think, or have > > discussed until now, whatever you claim. Only Don's proposal /may/ > > result into delaying etch > > I have no idea what "many DDs think", that's why I wanted a poll to > see if we really were going to aim to release etch on time, and if so > whether we'd do that by dropping hardware support or not complying with > the social contract. > > > 4. I know that many DD's had the same concerns about the potential > > politisations of those polls, or the risks to see them impact the > > GR, (or because they thought the issue was obvious) and didn't vote, > > and would refuse to. > > *shrug* If you don't vote, you don't get your opinion taken into > account. That's not news. Well, the correct way of discussing this kind of stuff, is to do so on debian-vote, this is how our voting procedure goes. > > I strongly enjoin people not to second that proposal, > > Why? If the other proposals are better, they'll win when the final vote > is taken anyway. because we already have to many confunded proposals. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
