On 7 January 2015 at 09:11, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 06/01/2015 Dave Fisher wrote: > >> Have we discussed Voting if there are multiple candidates? >> > > Yes, we did. I'm not going to let procedural discussions prevail, but as > it (too) often happens we can discuss it again. In this case it's worth it. > > Perhaps Apache STeVe is an answer: http://steve.apache.org/ >> > > What I proposed (see archives) is to have a simple, fully public, vote at > the first round, then, unless someone gets to 50%, remove the last > candidate, ask others whether they wanted to run again and iterate (for 1-2 > rounds likely). > > I agree STV is technically better since it can yield the same results and > save some time. I strongly oppose secret voting since we never had it, and > we used public voting, back at the time, both for selecting the PMC members > and for voting for the Chair. > +1 We do NOT want secret voting. > > So, even if this takes a significant additional effort on my side, I > volunteer to manage the following process if we have 3 or more candidates: > 1) People vote on this mailing list; everyone simply lists his acceptable > candidates (one or more) in order of preference. > You write it correctly, but based on my experience....it is good to stress: Do not list candidates you dont like. > 2) I compute STV, for binding votes only, on the above votes. > I helped a year ago (together with a second person) with the election of a chair in another project, and downloaded the STeVe tool which was used to manually feed in the mail votes that eased the process quite a bit. I think providing a simple sum for non-binding votes is ok, hopefully that shows the same direction as the binding votes....in case of big differences it might be worth while to try and understand the difference. > If candidates are 1 or 2, we use a simple vote instead. > +1 > > I'm proposing this for lazy consensus again. If you have other proposals, > speak up; but I'm confident that the above can accommodate all concerns and > this election is not complex enough for the voting system to really make a > difference. +1 rgds jan i. > > > Regards, > Andrea. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
