On Tuesday 25 April 2006 16:14, Thaddeus H. Black wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:29:56PM +0300, Panu Kalliokoski wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:15:20PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > > Besides, there is no value in a wide-open voting system. This is > > > called an "Internet poll" and the results generally reflect whatever > > > websites or blogs happen to publicise it. > > > > Not if those people have to be properly identified via their PGP keys. > > Such a simple requirement will already cut off the "casual Joes" that > > only vote once because they saw the announcement somewhere. It also > > prevents most ways of abuse. > > Yes, but was this Peter's point? There is already an inherent > unfairness in Debian's voting system when the vote of a relatively > modest contributor and less-than-one-year DD like me counts exactly as > much as each of the votes of Javier Fernandez-Sanguino Pen~a, Christian > Perrier, Manoj Srivastava, Ian Jackson or Joey Schulze (to name a few > examples)---each of whom is tenfold voteworthy next to me.
That is true, but it is not a Debian specific unfairness. If we assume that Debian Project and Debian Constitution resembles a Country and its Constritution, then Debian Project treats the voters with the same weight just like people voting in a country (all adults (respectfully DD's) have one vote with the same weigth). It is probably doable to stipulate a measurement scheme of how voteworthy a given voter is by means of the number and quality his/her packages, how long he has a DD and so on... but this is where the things get complicated and probably (if not done right) will raise more unfairness than the simplified one-to-one approach. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
