On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:13:04AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > OTOH, so far none of this has mattered: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." > however you counted the votes in the 2001 elections you got the same > result, Who's to say this will be the case next year, and every year thereafter? > none of the corner cases have come up, Yet. > we haven't actually had any supermajority votes, However, there is at least one pending; that being two competing "disambiguations" of a part of the Constitution. Since both are amendments to the text, either would require a supermajority. > and there are definitely more important things for us to be doing than > worrying about "typos" in our voting system's name. Well, okay, but should this be determinative of the disposition of Manoj's entire RFD? In other words, if we were to hypothetically drop all typographical corrections from the proposal, would that make it more or less attractive to you? > The electoral guys have some somewhat dubious estimates of how likely > we're to end up with any of the corner cases, somewhere back in the > archives, fwiw. What would you propose we discuss and then vote upon before a revision of our voting method? -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / branden@debian.org | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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