On Tue, 13 May 2003 03:23:19 -0400, Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 09:02 PM, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> BTW, people did revote on the last day of the DPL elections, and
>> the narrowest victory was in single digit votes, ( 4 beats 2: 228
>> 224 = 4 ).
> If there were 4 people who hadn't voted, then, the outcome was still
> in doubt. With the number of developers, and the number who don't
> even vote for DPL, I doubt that clause could ever be used.
> If the 2003 DPL election is any guide --- with 831 developers and
> 488 votes cast --- that clause could never be invoked except in an
> absolute landslide, and quite possibly never. I think that makes it
> fairly worthless.
Hmm. Given this, I would not strongly resist Raul's latest
change that defines what "no longfer in doubt" means, and letting the
clause stay in. Given the size of the project, I can easily convinve
myself that several hundred people would not vote on any given topic,
so the odds of any general vote where this clause can be applicable
are vanishingly small; and votes with smaller numbers of voters may
benefit.
So, if rauls view has large numbers of silent supporters, now
is your cue to unlurk.
manoj
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