Re:Debian votes to make no statement regarding RMS readmissi...
by em-bee on Sunday April 18, 2021 @01:18PM
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new options are only proposed when existing options do not represent all available opinions.
similar proposals can also be merged, and only options that make sense are being sponsored. and they are sponsored also by people who oppose that option because those people believe that the options should be balanced.
the existing options list all sensible outcomes. i can't think of any other pro- or anti-RMS option that would even make sense.
based on that i can't see how you want to extract any data on popularity
If there are several variations of anti-RMS proposals, it suggests that enough people care about the specifics of how the rebuke is worded, etc., but that generally there is enthusiasm about an anti-RMS stance.
If there are fewer pro-RMS proposals, then either they were proposed by people who don't support that option, but are putting it forward because they think it should exist as an option (as you suggest), or because there are fewer people who are enthusiastic enough to care about the minutia of how a support message is to be worded. Either way, that seems to me like less enthusiasm around an anti-RMS proposal.