Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes: > Voting on technical matters, or to elect technical bodies, works well > for projects that have a more narrow scope than Debian. There are Free > Software *development* projects that use vote among developers as a way > to decide whether to give commit access to someone or not, for instance.
> But at the Debian scale, I don't think vote should be used to decide on > technical merits, to choose technical solutions, or to elect technical > bodies. It will be democracy, sure, but I believe it will be less > effective than our current mechanisms at guaranteeing technical quality. To make this concrete, we had a spat of GRs to decide various technical and social issues in Debian some years back, and that practice has died out almost completely. I know I at least much prefer the current situation to when lots of contentious decisions involved GRs; the current situation seems like a clear improvement over the more democratic one that prevailed earlier. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aa3lxv8v....@windlord.stanford.edu
