Thank your for an excellent and insightful analysis. I wish to touch on just one point:
On Thu January 1 2009 06:44:24 Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > What we need is an oracle that says: "this is the correct interpretation of > the Constitution". The oracle needs to be respected by both of us so that > we could agree, in advance, to yield to the oracle's decision whichever of > us it favors. There is such an oracle - the Secretary - and every DD has given his or her word to abide by the Constitution and therefore to abide the decisions of the Secretary. The problem was that a small number of powerful DDs held Debian hostage by threatening to break their given word and not abide by the Secretary's decisions. To make matters worse, these few did not raise most of their concerns during the discussion period but instead waited until the vote was in progress - an extraordinarily divisive tactic. The unfortunate outcome is the loss of Manoj's services as Secretary. Manoj has been a remarkably astute and unbiased delegate and an invaluable asset to the Debian project. Most active DDs have strong opinions and it not easy to set one's own opinion aside and rule impartially as Manoj has so consistently done. Manoj's secretarial shoes will not be easy to fill. I am a Debian user and advocate but not a DD. Were I a DD I would urge the DPL to re-appoint Manoj as the best possible way to undo the harm done. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
