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Debian has a really interesting voting process[0]. > 1. Given two options A and B, V(A,B) is the number of voters who prefer option A over option B. > 2. An o
by cyb_ 5y ago
Debian has a really interesting voting process[0].
> 1. Given two options A and B, V(A,B) is the number of voters who prefer option A over option B.
> 2. An option A defeats the default option D by a majority ratio N, if V(A,D) is greater or equal to N * V(D,A) and V(A,D) is strictly greater than V(D,A).
> 3. If a supermajority of S:1 is required for A, its majority ratio is S; otherwise, its majority ratio is 1.
IIUC, the summary of the vote is:
The "No statement" option (7) beat the most popular rebuke FSF/Stallman option (2) by 8 votes (207 - 199) or ~2%.
It's also interesting that the individual ballots are public for such a polarizing issue. Even thought "no statement" won the vote, I wonder how much the public vote itself will divide the community and damage relationships.
[0]: https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-A https://www.debian.org/devel/constitution#item-A
- enriquto 5y ago> I wonder how much the public vote itself will divide the community and damage relationships. Participating in a democratic process is an implicit endorsement of it, whatever the final results. It would be very strange for people who have participated in this process to fight after the result. The whole point is to settle an issue. Now, maybe external actors will use the public votes to harass participants. There's lots of idiots out there. Maybe the full vote results should have been communicated only to the participants.
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- em-bee 5y agothis was brought up in the discussion before the vote, the argument against it was that there was only a provision for keeping the election secret, but not votes on resolutions. i did have the impression that an exception to making the votes public would be made, but i just found the actual vote list, so that didn't happen.
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