On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 23:51, Anthony Towns wrote: > I can't give a reason for (1); quorums in real meetings are used to > make sure enough people are able to participate in decisions for them > to be meaningful. Since we do everything over mailing lists and have a > couple of weeks for every issue to be considered, I'm not sure there's > any benefit to making sure there are at least a given number of votes. Not to mention with 1000 developers 3Q = e(1/2*l(1000))/2*3 = ~47.4. I don't think fewer than 48 out of 1000 people will vote ever, and www.debian.org/vote bears me out. No decided issues have less than 100 votes. So, suggest go ahead with it: Drop all ocurances of "Q" and quorum from the Consitution. BTW: <http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0002> has the quorum calculated wrong. "Q is HALF of the square root of the number of current Developers"; someone forgot the half part when calculating Q on that page. Q is really ~11.15, making the quorum 33.44, not 67. <http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0004> has the same problem. And <http://www.debian.org/vote/1999/vote_0005>. <http://www.debian.org/vote/2000/vote_0007> and <http://www.debian.org/vote/2002/vote_0001> have the proper calculation, and <http://www.debian.org/vote/2001/vote_0001> didn't bother.
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