Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-23 Thread Thue Janus Kristensen
>From that discussion ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/05/msg00012.html ), Michael Ossipoff mentions a similar solution for the "beat default" criterium problem as my suggestion, except for a different voting system: > Do a rank-balloting among all of the options, with D as one of the o

Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-23 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Thue Janus Kristensen: > I don't know enough about Michael Ossipoff's suggested complete > change of voting system to have an opinion about that. > It's not a "complete change". The basic Condorcet method is unchanged. We merely change (fix?) what we do when there's no single winner. I have

Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Thue Janus Kristensen writes: > So in the init system vote example with my rule modification, D, U and > FD would end up in the Schwartz set, Bdale would choose D, and the final > result would then be FD, because D doesn't beat FD. So this rule change > means that U cannot win unfairly due to str

Re: GR proposal: code of conduct

2014-02-23 Thread Alexander Wirt
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Hi, > Op donderdag 13 februari 2014 14:13:40 schreef Alexander Wirt: > > On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > > If indeed listmasters do object (which I don't think will be the case, > > > but of course I can't read their minds), then obvious