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Re: suggestion for a new tool



It probably wouldn't be a good idea to decide -everything- by
"popularity contest", but some things would definitely be well handled
by vote.

I believe it was proposed, because the project has largely refused to
accept leadership.

Voting, preceeded by a period of discussion, can be very effective for
tech decisions.  Votes cast by uninformed persons tend to randomize the
results, however.

Maybe we should have a vote, to decide whether things should be decided
by voting.  (I'm kidding!)

Ian Jackson wrote:
> 
> "Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@kleinmann.com> writes:
> > I think we've all seen that email can be a very clumsy way to gather
> > opinions, especially conforming ones.
> >
> > Here's a suggestion:   a web-ish tool which allows people
> > to fetch the text of issues up for consideration, then send a measure
> > of a vote of confidence (strongly agree to strongly disagree) with
> > optional add-on comments.
> 
> Why do we want to `gather opinions', as you say ?
> 
> Voting is an extremely poor way to make technical decisions.
> 
> Remember the chess match where people voted on their next move ?
> 
> Ian.