Re: Amendment to: reduce the length of DPL election process

On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:15:19PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta <at> debian.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007 16:12:15 +0100, MJ Ray <mjr <at> phonecoop.coop> said: 
> > > Summary: reduce the campaign-only period to one week. [...]
> > 
> >         This would probably mean that organizing the debate might have
> >  to go; since the time period for identifying the candidates,
> >  determining what time slots would work for them, the organizers, and
> >  the audience would shrink, to the point that it is unlikely that there
> >  would be any time for a post debate followup period to ask for
> >  clarifications and all.
> 
> Would it?  The organisers and most time slot limitations could be
> identified before nominations close and the possibilities announced.
> The organisers were already being identified before nominations closed
> this year, after all:-

Yes, and even so, the debate was already pretty late during the campaign
this year because agreeing on a time slot seemed almost impossible.
Shortening the campaigning as you suggest will make organizing the
debate pretty much ruled out.

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