Re: Announcing new decision making procedures for Debian

Very well crafted april's fool :-)

Cheers,

Filippo

On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 12:52:53AM +0200, Enrico Zini 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
>   [email protected] .
>
> * 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
>
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