Hello Sandro, Sandro Tosi [2021-03-25 12:21 -0400]: > That scares me. what will happen to the list of people who disagree > with the ratification of the statement by Debian as a project? The > people that are so strongly pushing for this (and many other) actions > will have a list of (in their eyes) good and bad Debian members.
As this is is a highly political, divisive, and personal topic, not a technical one, I'd really hope that this would be a secret vote, much like the Debian leader voting? You bring up a good point here. If this is going to be an open vote, then this is senseless political power play, and will only kindle the fire. > And of course "nothing will happen, this is democracy at work", but > how can *I* be sure of that? how can anybody be sure that there wont > be anyone going thru decades of emails, twits, etc to find something > "incriminating" for those people, because they disagree with them? how > can i feel safe to vote no or FD in this GR? Exactly -- if this is an open vote, I'm afraid that would merely force a (possibly) large number of Debian members to not vote at all. Honestly, in that light I haven't made up my mind yet either what to do.. > Why are you dragging Debian's name into this? We are not a political > entity, we are (in our own words: > https://www.debian.org/intro/philosophy) "an association of > individuals who have made common cause to create a free operating > system". > So go ahead, make your individuality be heard, sign (or not sign, it's > up to YOU!) the open letter as who you are, but please leave Deiban, > our technical project, outside of this fight. Exactly -- big +1 Thanks, Martin
