Re: [Debconf-team] Meeting notes, Tuesday 8 February 2011
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:01:21AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Ana Guerrero dijo [Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:51:03AM +0100]:
> > > Hiding them to help people not be influenced by the previous raters
> > > sounds like a pretty good idea. The idea here wouldn't be anonymity,
> > > just to help people remain unbiased and make independent choices.
> > > Raters would know that in the final decision, it won't be hidden.
> >
> > I think this would be a very good idea, my feeling is sometimes people feel
> > guilty to vote less on a person who already has 3-4 votes with a given
> > number of points. Or viceversa.
> > So ideally, you would not see in penta the rating of the people until
> > everybody in the commitee has rated them. This does not mean you can not
> > see Develpoer Jane and Developer Joe already rated Developer Bernard,
> > you just don't see what they voted until the end.
>
> OTOH, on a complex project, I know about the level of involvement some
> people have on some topics. I don't know about many others. And yes, I
> do let other voters' votes influence mine.
>
Yeah, but you never know if other's know about that person better than you.
> Probably we should rather make explicit that if you don't feel
> confident about rating somebody, you should refrain from voting (for
> or against). Then, a vote of 0 would mean "nobody knows this person",
> a negative vote would mean "he is mostly a liability", and we would
> just sponsor the positive levels.
Yup.
On a related note, maybe the travel sponsorship commitee wants to start
already working at the best method for ranking this years before
they get the list of candidates?
Ana
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