On 2021-03-31 19 h 12, Jessica Clarke wrote: > 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> >
Just to be crystal clear if it wasn't already, this is all satire. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Louis-Philippe Véronneau ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ po...@debian.org / veronneau.org ⠈⠳⣄
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