On 14Sep16:1203+0100, Martin Read wrote: > Debian users, on the other hand, are very much *not* a strongly-identifiable > group; there is no formal mechanism whatsoever for being endorsed as an > Official Debian User. As such, a vote "by the users" can, *at best*, be a > vaguely indicative straw poll of those bona fide users who feel strongly > enough about matters to participate in the first place; at worst, it will be > a magnet for trolls, astroturfers, shills, and other such reprobates.
The obvious question this leads to is, "Would some registration facility to enable non-developing users to support/inform decision-making by the DDs add meaningful value to Debian?" I'm thinking popularity-contest on steriods, a means for DDs to ask the users what they think, and maybe why, in a one-person, one-confirmed vote approach. -- <not cent from sell> May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig______________________________________________ "So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe." __--from_Nightfall_by_Asimov/Silverberg_________________
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