On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:18 PM Lukas Ruzicka <lruzi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Abstain is useful if there are conflicts of interest, or to indicate no >> preference either way, or as a result of confusion. I chock up more than >> one abstain vote as an indicator the proposal isn't persuasive enough. >> Indeed if everyone votes to abstain, that means the vote was premature/ill >> advised and that the arguments in favor and against must be improved, >> rather than literally do nothing. >> >> > Generally speaking yes, however deciding whether something is a blocking > bug (or not) will probably not fall into the category of premature or ill > advised votes. I assume that the vote will only take place when there will > have been at least some discussion about the problem, so people will > probably not arrive into a situation when "they would not know much about > it". > > Also, I assume that the common group of people who regularly attend the > blocker bug meeting are interested in casting the vote actually, so if they > do not, you could take it as a sign that the vote is not clear enough. > > I am perhaps projecting something, but I usually do not understand people > who give up on their vote by placing an empty envelope in general elections > to show that they really do not see a difference between the two final > presidential candidates. I just believe they simply have not been > investigating enough. I think also believe that throwing an empty envelope > can be a sign that they do not want to take the responsibility to decide. > However, since it is legal in the Czech republic, I live with that. > > The same holds true here, if people say that they want to be able to cast > a "0" for whatever reason, and we make it a legal choice, I will be fine > with that. Basically, to have or not to have a "zero" option in voting is > totally unimportant, when there are voices against asynchronous meetings. > So let's not waste time in arguments about the "immortality of the > cockchafer" as one of the Czech sayings says. > Let's just say we have a long history of +0 votes in our IRC meetings, and they are quite frequent. I don't intend to change that in the async blocker process proposal. As you say, "it's totally unimportant", primarily because it doesn't affect the vote result.
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