Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary
Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
> So, to be specific, I propose to add a paragraph 8 to section 4.1
> (powers of the developers):
> 8. Override a decision of the secretary. Overriding the secretary's
> determination of the majority required for a ballot option or
> overriding the determination of the outcome of a vote requires that
> the developers agree by a 3:1 majority. The secretary's
> determination of whether a 3:1 majority is required to override
> the project secretary is not itself subject to override.
> I'd appreciate comments on this proposal and on the general issue.
> Assuming the discussion resolves reasonably quickly, I propose to send
> out a new version of the secret ballot proposal including a fix to this
> issue in around a week.
The question this raises for me is who runs the vote to decide whether to
override the Project Secretary? I would completely trust Kurt to run that
vote, but in the general case the Project Secretary running a vote on
whether to override the Project Secretary is a clear conflict of interest.
We could require that such a vote be done by public ballot regardless of
any secret ballot mechanism for other votes, which gives us some built-in
defense against any problems, but it still makes me a little bit leery to
set up a situation where someone is running a vote about overriding a
decision that they may feel strongly about.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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