Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-06 Thread Timo Röhling
* Harlan Lieberman-Berg [2022-03-05 16:13]: I hereby amend this proposal, unless any of the seconding Developers (CCed) objects. The diff follows: commit 7c4d89528a50345b0bd0e67d9d36499413d9d6c1 Author: Harlan Lieberman-Berg Date: Sat Mar 5 16:01:26 2022 -0500 Change language as suggest

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-06 Thread Bill Blough
Hi Harlan, Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I think your reasoning is sound and appreciate you elaborating on it. On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 07:28:57PM -0500, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > I still hope that this option receives enough seconds to go on the > ballot as an intermediary position betw

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-06 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Harlan Lieberman-Berg dijo [Sat, Mar 05, 2022 at 04:13:48PM -0500]: > (...) > > If it is your intention that making the ballot secret extends the > > discussion time (as adding a ballot option would), then also: Amend > > A.1.4. to read, "The addition of a ballot option, the change via an > > amend

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-05 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On Sat, Mar 5, 2022 at 3:41 PM Richard Laager wrote: If that's your intended application, why not just make that the explicit process, rather than requiring it be part of a ballot option? I suppose one reason might be so you don't have to duplicate a lot of procedural elements, by piggybacking

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-05 Thread Richard Laager
On 3/4/22 18:28, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: In practice, the way that I would like to see this work is that a ballot option is proposed with no content other than turning the ballot to a secret option. Then people can, regardless of their position on the issue, second that ballot option to avo

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-04 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:12 AM Judit Foglszinger wrote: > I think, 4K puts the bar very high (that would require 20 people). On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 12:39 PM Bill Blough wrote: > However, to generate further discussion, I do agree with Judit [1] that > 4K seems like a high bar. Hi Judit, Bill,

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-04 Thread Bill Blough
I second the ballot option quoted below. However, to generate further discussion, I do agree with Judit [1] that 4K seems like a high bar. In a general sense, if the bar is too high then the result might be indistinguishable from not allowing secret votes at all. Of course the opposite could be t

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-03 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 09:54:40PM -0500, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:46:16PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > [...] > > > I have argued against this notion that private votes in some way > > contradicts our principles of transparency¹, but that got no replies

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-03 Thread Judit Foglszinger
> > + At least 4K Developers have sponsored any single ballot > > option > > + which says the votes will be kept secret. I think, 4K puts the bar very high (that would require 20 people). signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 9:55 PM Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > Regarding the 'public as an option' ballot: it's not hard to imagine a(nother) > controversial GR where people voting X>Y would be more likely to make it > public, while those voting Y>X would be strongly inclined to keep it private > -

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Wed, Mar 2, 2022 at 6:57 PM Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > > votes being public brings a few extra bits of transparency More than that, public votes are a measure of mutual trust. Fans are right to mourn their loss. Do we not live in polarized times? Kind regards, Felix Lechner

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
Hi, On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 07:46:16PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote: [...] > I have argued against this notion that private votes in some way > contradicts our principles of transparency¹, but that got no replies > whatsoever. > > ¹ https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/yg+tfywh09xmp...@debian.

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:13:03PM -0500, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I propose the following ballot option for the current GR: > > Rationale > > While I agree that there are some votes which, due to their nature, > may be so controversial that the potential for a

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Philip Hands dijo [Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 08:34:56AM +0100]: > Does this not force people that would like to keep their vote secret to > publish that fact in order for it to happen (which might well hint > strongly at how they are likely to vote)? Might be. But people feeling any pressure due to the

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I hereby second Harlan's option. Thanks a lot for taking the word for writing it down and presenting the rationale! Harlan Lieberman-Berg dijo [Tue, Mar 01, 2022 at 11:43:20PM -0500]: > On 3/1/22 23:13, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I propose the following ballot option

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-02 Thread Taowa
Harlan Lieberman-Berg, 2022-03-01: > The changes are available at: > https://salsa.debian.org/hlieberman/webwml/-/commit/82729d07aba7dd7ac641f7e4a87178f34b23efca > > A diff follows (the word diff is very confusing, so I've omitted it): > > diff --git a/english/devel/constitution.wml b/english/dev

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-01 Thread Philip Hands
Harlan Lieberman-Berg writes: > On 3/1/22 23:13, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> I propose the following ballot option for the current GR: >> >> Rationale >> >> While I agree that there are some votes which, due to their nature, >> may be so controversial that the p

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-01 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On 3/1/22 23:13, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote: Hello everyone, I propose the following ballot option for the current GR: Rationale While I agree that there are some votes which, due to their nature, may be so controversial that the potential for a person's votes to be publicly revealed

GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-01 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello everyone, I propose the following ballot option for the current GR: Rationale While I agree that there are some votes which, due to their nature, may be so controversial that the potential for a person's votes to be publicly revealed