Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 04:33:42PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Oct 2006 08:43:57 -0700, Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >> > Debian Project Secretary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> In the brackets next to your preferred choice, place a 1. Place a 2 >> >> in the brackets next to your next choice. Do not enter a number >> >> smaller than 1 or larger than 2. You may skip numbers. You may >> >> rank options equally (as long as all choices X you make fall in the >> >> range 1<= X <= 3). >> >> > These instructions are self-contradictory. -- Ben Pfaff email: >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://benpfaff.org >> >> Rubish. You have tow overlapping constraints. One constraint >> happens to be a superset of the other. There is not contradiction -- >> get your nit-picking right, fer gaeds sake. > > Whatever you call it, it's your screw-up.
I don't even think there's anything seriously screwed. And if there were, the right thing to do would be to ask Manoj "Please tell me where I can download the script you use, so that I can fix it", instead of blaming him. > And yes, this is a concern, > because there are plenty of people participating in this vote, who > might be confused by this, but reluctant to ask for clarifications due > to language and/or culture barrier. Anyone who ist not able to figure out themselves what this means might have a problem in their Debian work generally, since you can't expect that everything is spelled out and proofread when you're dealing with Debian packages. Anyone who has a language and/or culture barrier to asking if they don't understand something important, and/or at the same time is not able to find the information in the constitution that is the "source" for this paragraph, they will have a *severe* problem working in Debian. > If it's so unbearably painful > for you to hear the criticism, perhaps you should do a better job of > proof-reading the ballot (and your replies :-) next time. Given the (often unwarranted) criticism Manoj had to face in the last couple of days, his reply wasn't really bad-tempered. And how about your offering him to proofread the ballot? Or just doing it, since he actually posted it in public for that very purpose? Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
