Polls are ultimately about taking the temperature of the room. As Ian pointed out the process isn't majority rule. Ultimately the polling is to inform the maintainer of the library of popular opinion. As it is ultimately about judging over all opinion assessing the relevance of pre-change responses is something that seems well within the capabilities of a maintainer.

-Edward


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:46 AM, wren ng thornton <wren@freegeek.org> wrote:
On 5/26/13 11:40 AM, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> I assume that everyone involved here has a hackage account, or would not
> mind getting one. How about a small web app on hackage.org that allows
> everyone (with an account) to start a poll, or to extend a poll with
> additional options, and to vote on the poll.

I'm all for making polls, even if just to simplify the bookkeeping rather
than to be anything more official. However, adding options to a poll in
progress is treacherous; how should pre-change responses be tallied?

--
Live well,
~wren


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