Moray Allan dijo [Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:06:34PM +0000]: > > Select people that are, initially farthest from me (or from all the > > team members) in the web of trust, probably in small batches, as ding > > this one at a time will take too long. > > > > I don't have an opinion on whether this bit is sensible without seeing what > it means in practice > > (I suspect, due to mass keysigning, that it will come close to giving the > people with greatest overall mean-shortest-distance, which could mean > people who least enjoy attending events themselves, or perhaps people who > live in the most remote locations. If the results are too warped that way, > it might work better to select people randomly, with weights proportional > to, say d^alpha where d is this distance measure.)
I agree with you here... Although the GPG WoT does carry *some* measure of whom does each person know, "knowing" is a very subjective word. I think we are unlikely to get much better results than from a random sample. > > Ask the nominee if they're willing, and not in need of sponsorship > > themselves. > > As I've said in the past, I think the > not-applying-for-sponsorship-themselves point is sensible/important. It > should perhaps also be applied to the victims from the previous stage, so > that they aren't influenced to choose people likely to favour themselves. We have in the past decided not to vote for/against ourselves. Yes, the committee should ideally not be the least worried about this - But then again, I don't think it's _so_ sensible. We have trusted people to be objective/neutral, and although there are unhappy people, I believe there will always be, no matter how fair the resulting system is. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
