15.10 Default Applications Voting Results

[David Bermúdez Guiot]

Can I announce this on my twitter account or am I violating a
confidentiality agreement?

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El abr 15, 2015 2:24 AM, "Simon Steinbeiß" <simon at xfce.org> escribió:

> Hi everyone,
>
> as the votes we had on two topics regarding default applications for 15.10
> expired last night, I will now quickly summarize the results and talk about
> the consequences.
>
> === Numerical Results ===
>
> Dropping GIMP:
> for 4 | against 3 | neutral 3
>
> Dropping Abiword:
> for 7 | against 2 | neutral 1
>
> Installing LibreOffice (or parts):
> for 4 | against 3 | neutral 3
>
> === Consequences ===
>
> Since two of the votes are tight, I will quickly explain the consequences.
> First of all, Elizabeth (our Marketing Lead) informed us of her votes in
> the channel but didn't formally vote by sending in the appropriate emails,
> hence I didn't add her votes to the sum here. She did vote +1 on all three
> votes, so the results look quite a bit clearer. In terms of dropping Gimp I
> would argue it's totally fine to try this in the upcoming cycle based on
> this result and re-evaluate for the LTS.
> In terms of including LibreOffice for the first time, Sean (our Technical
> Lead) voted +0 (almost +1), which makes me confident that it's Ok for us to
> go through with this decision despite the impression of a "tight race" when
> looking at the numerical results above.
>
> So all in all this means that 15.10 will be shipped without Gimp, Abiword
> and Gnumeric but instead (parts of) the LibreOffice Suite.
>
> Thanks to everyone who participated in these discussions (I know we've had
> them plenty of times), but I feel we finally made some progress here.
>
> Cheers
> Simon
>
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