La Salle Debain

Today is the last day of voting on the General Resolutions concerning Sarge. Here are my choices:

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[ 2 ] Choice 1: Postpone changes until September 2004 [needs 3:1]
[ 1 ] Choice 2: Postpone changes until Sarge releases [needs 3:1]
[ 6 ] Choice 3: Add apology to Social Contract [needs 3:1]
[ 3 ] Choice 4: Revert to old wording of SC [needs 3:1]
[ 5 ] Choice 5: "Transition Guide" foundation document [needs 3:1]
[ 4 ] Choice 6: Reaffirm the current SC [needs 1:1]
[ 7 ] Choice 7: Further discussion
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The reason is that we have get Sarge out right now. Sorry the rotting corpse of woody is beginning to smell. Once that is out of the way, people can do all the legal noodling about they want. I prefered choice 2 over choice 1 because in the event of something going wrong a vague date is more flexible than an exact one.

My next preference was choice 4. Even though the changes were strictly editorial in my opinion, the release manager doesn't agree. And only chose to mention it at the local planning department on Alpha Centauri ^WW^WW^WW^WW in the middle of an obscure thread on debian-vote. So if it's going to hold up sarge, let's get rid of it.

My next preference is choice 6 which is to let the editorial changes stand. I would want to force the release manager to change his mind or step aside in that case because as you may have gathered by now, sarge must be released right now and it is way too late to do drastic surgery on it.

A transition guide is just extra bureaucracy and an apology is just plain weaselish. So no love for choices 5 and 3. And last of all choice 7, further discussion because the last thing we need is even more gum-flapping on this topic.