Hello,
On 01.04.21 20:08, Bart Martens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:00:47PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
The constitution says:
3. Votes are taken by the Project Secretary. Votes, tallies, and
results are not revealed during the voting period; after the vote
the Project Secretary lists all the votes cast. The voting period
is 2 weeks, but may be varied by up to 1 week by the Project
Leader.
You could say that "all the votes cast" could mean what was voted,
now who voted what, but I think that conflicts with the intention
of the text.
Could one use hashes and publish those, while keeping the original votes
in a place that's accessible only to the secretary? The constitution
does not talk about _how_ the cast votes need to be listed. Also it uses
the word "listed" not "published". But I might be playing on words here.
But again, that option would place the secretary at the center of trust.
That said, i don't feel very strongly about having that particular vote
be private, specifically since the initial email came from a pseudonym
referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Duprat_(Avignon) and
since I could not find that email having interacted with any Debian list
before [1], nor find it anywhere else referred to on the internet.
Ulrike
[1] https://lists.debian.org/cgi-bin/search?P=je.duprat%40protonmail.com
