That's saying "Let's discuss this election without getting sidetracked into the issues of the election."

The whole issue of discussion related to council elections were the issues related to maemo & how the nominees profess to address them. "Just remain calm & inert" is what eviscerated the community by Nokia's "demolition by neglect" of maemo.org.

Massive problems with the repositories & testing methodologies are active destructive forces that Nokia seems intent on letting proceed. What the motivation of Nokia, of which qgil is a representative & spokesman, may be can only be speculated upon, but the result has certainly been faster abandonment of interest in the platform.