Status (was Re: Our counting procedure)
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:19:46PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
> Debatable. Unmarked votes can also be counted as "equally last", so
> that "--1--" count is the same as "22122". The constitution is unclear
> on this (as well as many other things), which is why AJ, Buddha Buck,
> Raul, and a couple of people from the election-methods list have been
> working on a proposal to clarify and improve Debian's voting procedure
> and rules.
Thanks for the reminder.
I opted not to say anything about the informal group to reform our
voting procedures during the election, because i thought it would
be a bit too distracting.
That group has settled on a technique for ranking ballots (how to
break ties -- circular ties, especially) and is now revisiting issues
of supermajority. There's about a dozen other things on the plate,
and since discussions are being held serially (one topic at a time)
I anticipate that this will take a while.
Meanwhile, I see a need to upgrade our voting procedures. These
needs come in several flavors -- there's changes to the debvote
package (so that people receive feedback on what vote has been
recorded, as of what point in time), and there's potential changes
to the constitution (I've suddenly acquired a personal distaste
for apparently unilateral statements which actually have exceptions).
For now, I'm going to suggest wishlist bugs against the "debvote"
package and against the "constitution". Of course, usual good
practice applies (before filing it's usually a good idea to look
and see what other people have filed).
And, finally, I do appreciate the humor of the apostrophe discussion,
but could we keep it down to "minor distraction" levels? [Maybe try
to contribute something positive as well, or even hold off sending in
your fabulous contribution until you can think of something useful
to say at the same time.]
Thanks,
--
Raul
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