<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Take this two cents for what it's worth - I get these emails and hope eventually to test for Xubuntu, so my input should be taken with several grains of salt, but here goes anyway : you guys have been kicking A$$ on the past three releases - it's not broke, don't fix it, leave Pasi in charge. <br>
</div>You guys are doing a PHENOMENAL job. Raring is outstanding. Fast as hell, super stable, haven't had a single notable issue on three Dells yet. Other than installing Faenza icons, Synapse and Xpad, not much to add either.<br>
Superb. You guys are on point.<br>Regards.<br></div>Rich Dennis - amerigena<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Pasi Lallinaho <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pasi@shimmerproject.org" target="_blank">pasi@shimmerproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Its great to be able to elect leaders, but there are
two issues with this:<br>
-Voting should always be done in a secret manner to ensure it is
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I don't think it is a problem that votes are public in this
election. If you disagree, you should discuss with whoever is
elected as the project lead for the next two cycles on making the
election section on the strategy document better.<div class="im"><br>
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-There is no way to ensure someone doesn't vote more than once...<br>
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Ultimately, there is no way to ensure somebody doesn't have more
than one account in Launchpad and in the Xubuntu users group.<br>
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I think it would be fair/better to consider who is eligible to vote
in the first place. Since it is this late in the cycle I don't think
it would be fair to change the strategy document and possibly be
alleged of favoring myself. (On the other hand, if the whole Xubuntu
team thought the current mechanism is wrong, it might be possible to
change the voting method on cooperation with the Ubuntu community
council before the voting starts this time. I'm disqualified to ask
you to do this either, though.)<div class="im"><br>
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Or am I missing something here<br>
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Thanks for the input, but unfortunately it is quite late for me to
affect it at this time.<div><div class="h5"><br>
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<a href="mailto:pasi@shimmerproject.org" target="_blank"><pasi@shimmerproject.org></a> wrote:
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<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;word-wrap:break-word;font-family:sans-serif;margin-top:0px">Hello Xubuntu community!
It is the time to submit nominations for the next Xubuntu Project Lead
for the next two release cycles (see footnote [a] for clarification).
NOMINATIONS
Nominations need to be sent to the Xubuntu developer mailing list [1]
*before* May 1 with a link to a wiki page for the nominee. Per the
strategy document [2], the wiki page should include at least the
following information:
– A brief history of the nominee in the FOSS world
– Activities in any relevant teams
– Thoughts about the Xubuntu development, including the biggest
challenges and possibilities
– Areas of interest as a project lead, including any changes the nominee
is wishing to see in the team
Both the nominating person and the nominee need to be members of the
Xubuntu users Launchpad group
[3].
Note: If you are nominating somebody else, please ask them for their
consent; only people who are willing to serve as the project lead can be
elected.
VOTING
There are two ways to vote to allow people from every timezone to vote:
1) By email, starting at 18UTC on May 1, ending at 18UTC on May 2.
2) In the Xubuntu community meeting starting at 18UTC on May 2 on the
#xubuntu-devel IRC channel.
In the case there are more than one nominee, you should vote for one of
the nominees.
In the case there is only one nominee, you should vote for or against
the nominee.
In the case there are no nominees, the voting is cancelled and the
Xubuntu team will meet as scheduled to consider the future.
Anybody in the Xubuntu users Launchpad group is entitled to vote.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions, please send them to the Xubuntu developer
mailing list
[3].
Yours truly,
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Project Lead
[a]
The Xubuntu Strategy Document [2] states that the project lead "serves a
term of four releases [...] and end with an LTS release". When my term
started on October 2011, the term length was set at three cycles, ending
with the 13.04 release. To make the term end with an LTS release, the
project lead is unlike normally elected for only two cycles.
[1] <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel</a>
[2] <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/StrategyDocument" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/StrategyDocument</a>
[3] <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Exubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-users</a>
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