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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: SM Discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] voting process
  • Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:37:25 -0500

Eric Sandall wrote:
We're trying to keep a system that lets everyone vote without any fear
of coercion (in any form), which open voting does not allow. It's
great that other distros and communities use open voting, but they're
not us and we don't have to do what 'everyone else' is doing. We've
Sure we don't, but we better have a good reason. This thread is about finding that reason, and I think nobody including you came up with one. Saying "some people want that" is not an answer. People want many things, and some of them may be wrong for the project. A specific example of "intimidation" or "coercion" would go a long way, similarly to a bug report going a long way toward fixing a problem, but all I hear is that "it's possible." It's also possible that all the political stuff is going to bog down SMGL to the point of irrelevance. Maybe we all have to think carefully about doing things differently, and try doing them the "old-fashioned" way that has been proven to work at least sometimes.

Eric, let me ask you, a project lead, to explain to me, a long time contributor, and this list, how did mandatory anonymous voting make our project better? What is it that we gained by instituting that? In retrospect, do you think it was a good idea? Do you think more people came to the project because they could vote anonymously, or some people left before because they couldn't? And if you don't know, let's set up a poll and ask everyone, because with so much politics, we might as well do it right.

Sergey.




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