Re: Number of options

On 13/08/26 at 16:52 +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2026 at 10:57:14AM +0100, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> 
> > > If you don't mind reading AI-generated commits,
> > > https://salsa.debian.org/lucas/devotee/-/commits/35options might be
> > > helpful. (The commits are intentionally verbose, and you probably don't
> > > want to add doc/max-options.md and AGENTS.md, but I left them in the
> > > commit history)
> > 
> > I can’t be the only one who finds this quite tasteless given the
> > context of the GR? Especially after the pushback already present
> > earlier for the AI-generated GR summary page?
> 
> Indeed you aren't, and a similar stunt was equally seen as tastless by
> several people a week or so ago.
> 
> My cynical takeaway is that it may feel less important to build
> community when one gets a slave yes-chatbot to talk to, which may or may
> not be what is going on, but I take it as another data point of what
> kind of social direction a fully-AI-enhanced Debian may be likely to
> take

So your take is that ignoring Kurt's email about devotee's support for
votes with >9 options would contribute to building community?

(And no, I had no time to look at devotee manually, and I doubt that it
would have triggered a lot of interest from others, given it only saw 11
commits since 2017)

Lucas