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Bug#203875: marked as done (www.debian.org: 2003 DPL election page: confusing quorum information)

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Package: www.debian.org
Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-02
Severity: minor

Hello,

somehow bug #187864 got closed without really solving the problem.
So again:

the page

    http://www.debian.org/vote/2003/vote_0001

states the following.

    Quorum: With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum of
    43.2406059, or, rounding up, 44.  Only one candidate failed to win
    by a margin greater than the quorum.

This description is strongly misleading, because it makes the cursory
reader believe that one candidate did would have failed quorum.
Actually all candidates did meet the quorum requirement.  The concept
of a "margin greater than the quorum" does occur nowhere in our voting
system description, neither the old one nor the current one.

For the quorum only the number of preferences over the default option
counts.  228 voters preferred Moshe Zadka over the default option.
449 voters preferred Bdale Garbee over the default option.  405 voters
preferred Branden Robinson over the default option.  424 voters
preferred Martin Michlmayr over the default option.  All these numbers
are way larger then 44.

So I suggest to change the above mentioned paragraph to

    Quorum: With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum of
    43.2406059, or, rounding up, 44.  All candidates did meet the
    quorum requirement.

I hope this helps,
Jochen

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tatonka.pfalz.de 2.4.20 #1 Wed Apr 30 15:55:10 CEST 2003 i586
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro

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Hi,

> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 10:18:34AM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 02:57:30PM +0200, Jochen Voss wrote:
>>> So I suggest to change the above mentioned paragraph to
>>>
>>>     Quorum: With 831 developers, Q=14.41353531, making a quorum of
>>>     43.2406059, or, rounding up, 44.  All candidates did meet the
>>>     quorum requirement.
>>
>> s/did meet/met/

Thanks, just fixed, it will be online in a few hours, sorry it took so long.

Regards

David

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