Re: Draft Amendment for Rationale Section
>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
Sean> Could we have a diff, please?
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Rationale
=========
-During the vote for GR_2021_002o, several developers said they were
+ During the vote for GR_2021_002, several developers said they were
uncomfortable voting because under the process at that time, their name
and ballot ranking would be public.
A number of participants in the discussion believe that we would get
@@ -13,13 +13,20 @@
This proposal would treat all elections like DPL elections.
At the same time it relaxes the requirement that the secretary must
-conduct a vote via email. There are no current plans to move away from
-email, although some members of the project want to explore
-alternatives. If this proposal passes, adopting such an alternative
+ conduct a vote via email. If the requirement for email voting is
+ removed, then an experiment is planned at least with the belenios voting
+ system [1]. belenios may provide better voter secrecy and an easier
+ web-based voting system than our current email approach.
+ If this proposal passes, adopting such an alternative
would require sufficient support in the project but would not require
another constitutional amendment.
-This proposal relies on the secretary's existing power to decide how
-votes are conducted. During discussion we realized that there is no
-mechanism to override a specific decision of the secretary, and the
-language allowing the project to replace the secretary is ambiguous.
+ [1]: https://lists.debian.org/YhoTRIxtz3AIpO+g@roeckx.be
+
+ This proposal increases our reliance on the secretary's existing power
+ to decide how votes are conducted. The lack of an override mechanism
+ for secretary decisions about how we conduct votes has not been a
+ problem so far. However, if we are going to rely on this power to
+ consider questions like whether the project has sufficient consensus to
+ adopt an alternate voting mechanism, we need an override mechanism.
+ So, this proposal introduces such a mechanism.
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