On 1 Apr 2021, at 00:06, Alejandro Nadal <alexandrona...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How will "the strength of the wording" be measured? I am not a DD, just a > debian user, curious about the new process.
Swearing and personal attacks are great ways to demonstrate your passion. Comparisons to communism, genocides and nazis are all particularly strong. > Also, doesn't this give more influence to those developers with more time to > write more mails, if the number of messages will be taken into account? Yes; if you can’t find time to write the emails then you clearly care less than those who do make the time. > (If this message breaks the mailing list protocol in any way, I am deeply > sorry, I am new to these debian mailing lists) Top-posting is awful and should be an instant rejection of any opinions for a GR IMO, same as non-plaintext replies and not line-wrapping. Jess > Alejandro Nadal > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 19:53 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org> wrote: > Hello Debian Members, > > For some time, we have been having systemic issues that make GR > discussions painful. GRs themselves shouldn't be painful, and don't need > to be. Having a chilling effect to using GRs hurts Debian, and as a > project we need a way to poll for consensus on project choices and > directions more often than not. > > To overcome the current problems with GR discussions, we introduce a > replacement weighted democratic system. The new procedure is this: > > * A developer proposes an issue with a signed message on > debian-vote@lists.debian.org . > > * Anyone can express their consent or dissent by replying to the > message. > > * When the discussion eventually dies down, the Debian Secretary will > review all messages and pronounce the winner. > > > This method makes the fair assumption that the energy spent in writing > messages to the discussion is related to the amount of insight a person > has on an issue, and how much they care about it. In particular: > > * The more messages a person writes, the more the person cares, and the > more their opinion will be taken into account: people who only write > every once in a while, clearly don't think the issue is important > enough to deserve their real effort. > > * The more strongly worded replies are, the more the person cares, and > the more their opinion will be taken into account: people who waste > time with long, polite, well reasoned messages, clearly didn't care > enough to get emotional about an issue. > > * The longer a person keeps writing, the more the person cares, and the > more their opinion will be taken into account: people who give up, > clearly didn't care enough to make themselves heard. > > To avoid confusion, we'll maintain the same acronym as before. The new > system will be called Debian Grandiose Reflection. > > The first GR using this scheme will concern the introduction of this > voting scheme for the future. > > > Enrico > > -- > GPG key: 4096R/634F4BD1E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org>
