Philip Hands dijo [Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:36:29AM +0100]: > > 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? I completely agree with Phil here. sometimes I do spend some time looking at different votes' tally sheets, not only to get the result, but to understand who votes how. Of course, I might pay attention to a dozen or so people -- but this project still has a size that allows for that to be significative! Possibly we could discuss on a way how to make specific votes private, if a politically challenging topic is touched. Maybe if we were able to have a mechanism similar to that of introducing amendments (er... "ballot options"), where one developer proposes the vote to be secret, and requires 5 DDs to second the request..?
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