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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:45:08AM +0100, Eric Schabell wrote:
> > I think voting is a good idea. But I do think voting is only useful if 
> > everyone votes, if the same people who always do the work are also the 
> > only 
> > people doing the voting then that is not a good indication of the 
> > community's 
> > or the project's wishes or opinions.
> > Voting should be compulsory, you can vote 0  if you don't care either way 
> > but 
> > I think that is still important have ALL developers involved.
> > The vote on the sm-admin list about delaying the 1.0 release is a good 
> > example 
> > of this. As it currently stands, the vote calls for a delayed 1.0 
> > release, 
> > but only six people have voted. Even if the other twenty developers don't 
> > care either way, they have to let the few who do care officially know 
> > what 
> > their position is.
> > 
> I agree with Hamish here... let's make sure we have a total vote (but a
> time limit for 1.0 voting would be nice, or the delay is by defaulting
> over the end of the month!).
> 
> The vote here below will be continued on sm-admin, for developers only.
> The vote here can continue on discuss to give the developers an idea
> what the users think?
> 
Voting:
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staying at the current version of xfree86 +1  +1  +2
moving new versions to z-rejected         +1  -1   0
finding/testing new alternatives          +1  +1  +2

Voted:
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Eric Schabel
Arwed v. Merkatz

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