Package Maintainers Flags policy
Paul W. Frields
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Wed May 20 20:33:59 UTC 2009
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On 05/20/2009 12:57 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>
>> Another issue is that there are many people whom I totally agreed with on
>> some issues but totally disagreed with on some others in the past.
>>
> This one is actually a feature of republican forms of government.
> Debating why that is is likely off-topic for Fedora devel. However,
> dealing with it is:
>
> No one who is elected by multiple people can represent all of the people
> who voted for them all of the time. So the voter has to make a decision:
>
> 1) Do you want someone who does what the majority of people think is right?
> 2) Do you want someone whose judgement you think is sound?
> 3) Do you want someone who holds the same fundamental values as you do?
> 4) Do you want someone that you, personally, have influence with?
>
> So, to prepare for the next election, it would be good to get some
> questions posted that speak to the core values that the people hold and
> to see whether, when they disagree with you, they are doing so with
> rational arguments that you can understand even if you don't agree with
> them.
To wit:
http://thorstenl.blogspot.com/2009/05/what-questions-would-you-like-to-ask.html
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