Hello, On 01.04.21 20:08, Bart Martens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:00:47PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:The constitution says: 3. Votes are taken by the Project Secretary. Votes, tallies, and results are not revealed during the voting period; after the vote the Project Secretary lists all the votes cast. The voting period is 2 weeks, but may be varied by up to 1 week by the Project Leader.
You could say that "all the votes cast" could mean what was voted, now who voted what, but I think that conflicts with the intention of the text.
Could one use hashes and publish those, while keeping the original votes in a place that's accessible only to the secretary? The constitution does not talk about _how_ the cast votes need to be listed. Also it uses the word "listed" not "published". But I might be playing on words here.
But again, that option would place the secretary at the center of trust.That said, i don't feel very strongly about having that particular vote be private, specifically since the initial email came from a pseudonym referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Duprat_(Avignon) and since I could not find that email having interacted with any Debian list before [1], nor find it anywhere else referred to on the internet.
Ulrike [1] https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=je.duprat%40protonmail.com