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[GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Steve George <steve <at> futurile.net>
Cc: 76503 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Guix Devel <guix-devel <at> gnu.org>
Subject: [bug#76503] [GCD] Migrating repositories, issues, and patches to Codeberg
Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 16:05:31 +0200

Hi Steve,

Steve George <steve <at> futurile.net> skribis:

> Reflecting things that we agree on: I will try and avoid the word 'vote'. I'll rename to 'deliberation-record' (1). And, will use 'Deliberation record' elsehwere.

Sounds great to me.

> Things we don't agree on: I don't see a way to avoid the verb "vote" for the action of "officially recording ones position". It's the only usable word I can come up with (which is odd for English). I don't want to mis-use the word deliberation as a verb for vote. If someone can come up with a meaningful verb for 'vote' I will use that - I just genuinely can't find one that isn't really odd (e.g. "It's time to measure our consensus" sounds like a weird euphemism to me!). It means it's hard to avoid a sentence like "As the Deliberation Period is at an end, it's time to vote on GCDNNN"

“Time to decide”?

But I think it’s okay if we use the word “vote” occasionally; I would
just prefer not overemphasizing it and giving a false impression, and I
thought that its prominent use in the records could be one such case.

Thanks for deliberating.  :-)

Ludo’.

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