Results for init system coupling

The full text of the option that won, since the results mail doesn't include it:

"The Debian project asks its members to be considerate when proposing General Resolutions, as the GR process may be disruptive regardless of the outcome of the vote.

Regarding the subject of this ballot, the Project affirms that the procedures for decision making and conflict resolution are working adequately and thus a General Resolution is not required."

The graphical results (rendered from the graphviz at the end of the voting results mail) show the full preferences of the project:

https://twitter.com/josh_triplett/status/534870813863051264

A labeled edge from A to B in that graph means that voters preferred A to B by that margin.

Those results answer several questions, in addition to the clear statement in the GR text above. In particular, it's clear that 1) people consider any result preferable to further discussion (just barely in the case of mandatory support for other init systems), 2) people still consider it desirable to support other init systems, just not mandatory, and 3) people would rather see a definitive statement in favor of systemd dependencies than a definitive statement against them.

That table would be more intelligible if it were triangular, contained the (row, col) difference, and were reordered so that no difference were negative. As it is, the eye is forced to jump back and forth to figure anything out.

Not long prior to this, Colin Watson and Russ Allbery resigned from the Debian Technical Committee.

This wasn't meant to happen.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2014/11/msg00040.html