On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 12:49:37PM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > I have carefully considered Ian's current proposal for a process and > schedule to reach a next ballot on the init system issue, and do not > believe it is the best way for us to proceed. > > The fundamental problem is that I remain as convinced now as I was when > I posted my last CFV that conflating multiple questions in a single > ballot is a bad idea. Our voting system works exceptionally well when > we're trying to choose between multiple alternatives for a single > question. But as others have observed, trying to mix questions into a > matrix of alternatives in a single ballot really complicates the > process. I believe it both tempts us all to take a more tactical > approach to voting than appropriate, and increases the risk of stumbling > over corner cases in the process which could lead to surprising results.
I have a lot of sympathy with Ian's position here, hence my previous FD votes; I think we do need to finish hashing this out, and it was valuable to run the combined votes (even abortively) since the combination certainly could have made a significant and important difference. However, looking through the votes cast so far, I do not see how separating them is actually going to make a discernible difference to the outcome of either part, and so I don't feel that I can personally justify holding things up any more for this. I also hope that resolving this part will vent a little pressure so that we can deal with the rest more effectively. > As per Constitution 6.3.1, I call for an immediate vote on the following > ballot, with a voting period of one week or until the outcome is no > longer in doubt: > > - - - start ballot - - - > > We exercise our power to decide in cases of overlapping jurisdiction > (6.1.2) by asserting that the default init system for Linux > architectures in jessie should be > > D systemd > > U upstart > > O openrc > > V sysvinit (no change) > > F requires further discussion > > Should the project pass a General Resolution before the release of > "jessie" asserting a "position statement about issues of the day" on > init systems, that position replaces the outcome of this vote and is > adopted by the Technical Committee as its own decision. I vote UDOFV. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
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