On Sun, 18 Apr 2021, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote: > If we look at the actual ballots, it's really interesting. Options 7 > and 8 were semantically pretty much equivalent. It's hard to see any > reason for someone to rank them very differently.
7 was a decision to not issue a statement ["There's no statement on this issue that I want Debian to issue"]. 8 was a decision for further discussion ["There may be statement on this issue that I'd want Debian to issue, but it's not here."] When there isn't an explicit "no decision" option on the ballot, further discussion encompass both, but that is not the case here. > It's very difficult to imagine someone who actually preferred option 7 > being equally satisfied with any of options 1-6 and 8. Here's an example thought process that works: "I want Debian to stop discussing this issue and anything more that Debian does on this issue is equally bad." Or another one: "I know that I prefer this option, but I'm not comfortable with the rest of the options to decide what the project should do, so I'll defer to the project's judgement." Not to say that there aren't voters who are confused, but you should contact them to figure out why they voted the way they did before assuming that they didn't know what they were doing. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
