Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes: > Rationale > ========= > > During the vote for GR_2021_002o, several developers said they were > uncomfortable voting because under the process at that time, their name > and ballot ranking would be public. I know that was said in the discussion at the time, but I wonder to what extent people either subsequently received any abuse about it, or modified their voting behaviour in response to that fear. Do we have any evidence that either thing happened? Also, it seems to me that the problem we're considering is that toxic people who are not really interested in Debian at all, might stumble across Debian voting results, and then use what they find as a reason to persecute some of us on-line. Is that about right? I have used the results of votes in the past to start conversations with people that I disagree with in some issue in order to better understand how they came to the other view. One can generally find someone on the other side of the argument who you already know and respect, which makes it much harder to dismiss them as an idiot. I'd miss that in a properly secret ballot. I don't actually care if our votes are readable by the general public, so would one way of addressing the concerns of attracting abuse would be to make the tally sheet only available to DDs behind authentication? Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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