On Jun 23, Richard Stallman wrote: > The ballot will contain the options: > > 1) create nonfree.debian.org domain > 2) create official.debian.org domain > 3) keep the current situation > > This way of holding the vote would tend to split the support for > change. I worry that 100 people might vote for 1, 100 people might vote > for 2, while 110 people might vote for 3--and 3 would win. > > I suspect that most of the people who prefer 1 would consider 2 better > than 3, and most of the people who prefer 2 would consider 1 better > than 3. So I think it is better to vote for three alternatives: > > * Split the servers. (Precisely how, to be determined later.) > * Don't split the servers. > * Further discussion.
Debian uses a single transferable voting method, in which developers rank their preferences. Presumably your votes would be 1243 (in order of ballot position). Assuming "no further discussion" appears #1 on the least ballots, it is dropped and anyone who voted for it as their first preference gets reallocated to the second preference (i.e. someone voting 2341 will have their vote reallocated to option 1). This iteration is repeated. So, assume we have the situation (assuming further discussion was dropped for now): 1 - 100 first place votes 2 - 80 first place votes 3 - 110 first place votes Option 2 gets dropped, and everyone who placed option 2 first has their votes reallocated based on their second preferences (or third preferences for people who voted x2x1, where x is don't care). Assuming people who supported 2 are more likely to support opt. 1 than opt. 3, opt. 1 will win. Chris, finally finding a use for his political science knowledge -- ============================================================================= | Chris Lawrence | You have a computer. Do you have Linux? | | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.linux-m68k.org/index.html | | | | | Amiga A4000 604e/233Mhz | Do you want your bank to snoop? | | with Linux/APUS 2.2.8 | http://www.defendyourprivacy.com/ | =============================================================================
