Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-11 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 9:22 PM Don Armstrong wrote: > > That said, if a majority uses the blunt force of §4.1.7 to try to get > its way by removing people, I'd be more concerned about the health of > the project than whether we had written rules to prevent it. I'd be more concerned about the

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-11 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 02:30:53PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > My reason (and maybe Holger's too) is I'd say that there is no > possibility of guaranteeing real permanent absolute secrecy in a vote > that we can practically conduct over the Internet (at least, not one > where the results are also

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-11 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Levsen writes: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 03:58:50PM +, Holger Levsen roughly wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 03:22:24PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >> > In my proposal all ballots would be secret, and the secretary would not >> > make a determination about that. >> what's the definitio

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-11 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 03:58:50PM +, Holger Levsen roughly wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 03:22:24PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > In my proposal all ballots would be secret, and the secretary would not > > make a determination about that. > what's the definition of 'secret' here? I'd still

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Sam Hartman writes: > I plan to release a complete proposal for secret ballots including the > proposed 4.1.8 within the next couple of days. > Is > https://salsa.debian.org/rra/webwml/-/commit/3f0f679ae97095915eea4b7299f16d74874c80da > my best starting point for a diff? You should now start fr

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-10 Thread Sam Hartman
I plan to release a complete proposal for secret ballots including the proposed 4.1.8 within the next couple of days. Is https://salsa.debian.org/rra/webwml/-/commit/3f0f679ae97095915eea4b7299f16d74874c80da my best starting point for a diff? > "Don" == Don Armstrong writes: Don> On F

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-04 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 04 Feb 2022, Sam Hartman wrote: > I see two ways of reading section 4.1.7: > > 1) If the DPL and secretary disagree on any issue then the project can > replace the secretary. > > 2) If the DPL and secretary disagree on the only issue where the two > of them both get to have an opinion (na

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-02-04 Thread Sam Hartman
Replying to two messages: Russ> The question this raises for me is who runs the vote to decide whether to Russ> override the Project Secretary? I would completely trust Kurt to run that Russ> vote, but in the general case the Project Secretary running a vote on Russ> whether to override the

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-30 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Sam, On Sat, Jan 29, 2022 at 03:22:24PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > In my proposal all ballots would be secret, and the secretary would not > make a determination about that. how do you define 'secret' here? -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|la

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jean-Philippe" == Jean-Philippe MENGUAL writes: Jean-Philippe> secret vote does not make part of them, if I remember Jean-Philippe> correctly the constitution and the debate, so the Jean-Philippe> debate was about intrepreting the text about this. The specific question that ros

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 29 Jan 2022, Sam Hartman wrote: > So, to be specific, I propose to add a paragraph 8 to section 4.1 > (powers of the developers): > > 8. Override a decision of the secretary. Overriding the secretary's >determination of the majority required for a ballot option or >over

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, Personally I am not sure that the secretary needs a challenging process, given how he/she/they is chosen and how the general vote process works. However, when he/she/they needs to take a decision, it is because the constitution enables him/her/them to do it, for defined situations. The qu

Re: Secret Ballots: Handling Disagreement with the Secretary

2022-01-29 Thread Russ Allbery
Sam Hartman writes: > So, to be specific, I propose to add a paragraph 8 to section 4.1 > (powers of the developers): > 8. Override a decision of the secretary. Overriding the secretary's >determination of the majority required for a ballot option or >overriding the determina