[csw-maintainers] [policy] files/dirs in /var/opt/csw

[Peter FELECAN]

Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> writes:

> On 1/14/11, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> Excerpts from Ben Walton's message of Sat Jan 08 16:54:57 -0500 2011:
>>
>>> The vote is open from the 9th - 13th inclusive.  As with the board
>>> vote, I have no indication of time zone handling for this, so I made
>>> it a 4 day window that includes weekend and weekday times.
>>
>> The results are in:
>>
>> Files and directories are allowed to be delivered to /var/opt/csw
>> directly by the prototype of a package. => 8 votes (57%)
>>
>> Directories may be delivered to /var/opt/csw by the prototype of a
>> package, but files may not. => 4 votes (28%)
>>
>> Neither files nor directories may be delivered to /var/opt/csw by the
>> prototype of a package. => 2 votes (14%)
>>
>> Phil: please adjust your scripts to allow packages delivering
>> directories and/or files via the prototype to be allowed through.
>
>
> I will for now. However, I have a complaint. As I mentioned
> previously, your voting writeup unfairly biased the vote.
> Because you sent a global vote invite to all active maintainers, but
> you included NOTHING about potential reasons why people might consider
> each option.
> This leaves people who have not read this thread, yet are *still
> voting*, in essentially the following situation:

There is no way to verify this assumption. I'd say: trust the voters to
have done their due diligence and read the maintainers list. The chance
that somebody votes "blindly" is idempotent for those reading or not.
-- 
Peter