Poor wording of vote results
I'm not sure where to bring this up, because it seems to be a fairly minor
issue. Nevertheless, it caused me some confusion at first sight.
The current results for logo3 are posted at
http://master.debian.org/~gecko/votes/logo3, according to the Debian
voting web page. There, I see this text:
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logo3 results - 57 valid votes
FOR logo swap (1st place)
Dominates AGAINST logo swap [50 - 7]
Dominates FURTHER Discussion [52 - 2]
AGAINST logo swap (3rd place)
FURTHER Discussion (2nd place)
Dominates AGAINST logo swap [22 - 20]
"FOR logo swap" does not have a Quorum so "FURTHER Discussion" wins.
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OK, that's great. The vote "does not have a Quorum", it says, and my
interpretation of that was "there is no quorum necessary". So why is
FURTHER winning? FOR dominates it. Wait a second. That's wrong.
The correct wording of the final line might be along the lines of:
"FOR logo swap" does not meet quorum, so "FURTHER Discussion" wins.
Perhaps just removing the word 'a' is helpful, resulting in:
"FOR logo swap" does not have Quorum so "FURTHER Discussion" wins.
Is it just too late in the day for me to think clearly, or is this a
problem? Granted I figured it out soon enough, especially since the idea
of a quorum-less vote in Debian is silly, but it was at first confusing.
Thanks..
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