Front page | perl.bootstrap |
Postings from July 2000
On Tue, Jul 25, 2000 at 08:44:32AM -0400, Chris Nandor wrote: > > OK, I'd like to take a small step back and find out what the purpose of > voting is. I've tried to find out from previous posts and couldn't. I > guess Chip shares my concerns: > > At 21:04 -0700 2000.07.24, Chip Salzenberg wrote: > >As for voting: I've seen a few people mention votes as part of some > >process or other. But without formal membership in an organization (a > >la Debian, and let's *not* go there!) I don't see how voting could > >actually be a useful part of a political process. > >It can only be used for opinion polls. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's the only use of voting that I've proposed. I.e., opinions on the relative priority of each of the issues we've identified. > As I see it, voting could serve two purposes: an advisory role, or a > decision-making role. The latter seems unreasonable; this is why we have > the pumpkings and working groups. Agreed. > The former seems subuseful; this is why > we have the pumpkings and working groups. :-) I'd hate to imagine the amount of email that would be required to achieve the same result as the 'vote'. (I don't think of it as a vote, more of an opinion poll.) > I suppose it can't hurt anything as long as we don't take the voting too > seriously; but if we aren't going to take it too seriously, what's the > point? There's a middle ground here. I don't see such polls being regular events, or even used again at all. But at this early stage it enables a potentially very large amount of input (ideas, opinions etc) to be collated and efficiently prioritised. Tim.Thread Previous | Thread Next