On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:31:04PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:14:02PM -0500, Raul Miller wrote: > > > Likewise, we've never had an official vote where the winning option would > > > have failed to satisfy a 3:1 supermajority requirement. > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:23:32PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > Sure we have. > > > > http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0001 > > Wichert did not defeat Richard Braakman by a 3:1 margin. > > I had only been thinking about the non-leader votes (since only > on the non-leader votes did I have enough information to run > the CpSSD algorithm). > > Also, I'm not sure what the basis would be for having one potential > leader have supermajority requirements and another leader not have > supermajority requirements. > > > http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/result_0002 > > "DUEL" [sic] license did not defeat "SINGLE" license by even a > > 2:1 margin. > > > > http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/result_0004 > > "SWIRL" defeated "DG" by only 77 to 57. > > I was thinking that if we required a supermajority for a logo vote, > we wouldn't apply it selectively to only one class of logo. In other > words, I was thinking that only the default option wouldn't have a > supermajority requirement. I don't understand, then. When have we ever had a non-election vote where the winning option *did* defeat the first runner-up by a 2:1 margin, let alone 3:1. I was unable to find one. > > > In these votes, > > > the winning option hasn't needed to satisfy that kind of requirement, > > > but even if they had it wouldn't have been a problem. > > > > Well, yeah, it would have, unless I just plain don't know how to read > > the results, which I suppose is possible. > > I'm not sure what you're saying, here. I'm saying that you're saying "we've never had an official vote where the winning option would have failed to satisfy a 3:1 supermajority requirement." I'm saying "we've never had an official vote (the 2000 DPL election excepted) where the winning option would have satisfied a 3:1 supermajority requirement." In other words, I'm flat out contradicting you. So either you're wrong, I'm not reading the historical vote tallies correctly, or I'm in for a big surprise when it finally dawns on me how CSSD will actually affect our voting system. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Ignorantia judicis est calamitas branden@debian.org | innocentis. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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