Voting process for PEP 308 (was: PEP 308: Alternative conditional operator forms)

[Jp Calderone]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 08:28:30PM -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> David LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> > I have confidence in Aahz's integrity.
> 
> In one of these threads, he threatened to vote against the proposal
> because I wasn't planning on listing his suggestion in my personal list
> for my own edification (a form which the BDFL explicitly rejected in the
> PEP, by the way).  In other words, he was going to punish me for doing
> something as an individual with no connection to the PEP or the voting
> process by voting against the proposal.
> 
> I had reservations about his choice of voting processes (which I voiced
> and which he acknowledged, but I don't know if he actually has any
> intention of changing the process).  But if he's going to threaten to
> vote against a proposal based on the unrelated activities of someone
> that is simply another voter, I have serious reservations about his
> ethics.  This is the _votetaker_ saying that he's going to do this. 
> That strikes me as extremely ungood.
> 

  It is his vote, and what he does with it is his business, whether you
think it is "ethical" or not.  I don't see how it has any bearing on his
integrity.

  Jp

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