On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:13:44 +1100, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> "cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> On Friday 23 March 2007, Ben Finney wrote: >> > If it's not counted, why is it counted (i.e. appearing in the >> > count of votes)? >> >> AIUI your confusing 2 different counts: >> - the count of "# valid votes made" >> - the count of "# valid votes taken into account", which is only >> the last >> valid vote for every developer. >> >> if there's people who changed their vote, only their last vote is >> counted to determine the outcome of the resolution, but they still >> made 2 votes (or more if they changed their minds more then once > Exactly. So, why does the vote result show a number of votes which > has no relevance to the number of votes that actually affected the > result? I find the count of valid votes received interesting. > In other words, why is the unqualified "number of votes" in the > report not the obvious "number of votes that actually affected the > result"? The number of votes we got was 260 -- from 257 developers. I am not sure I understand what all this hullabaloo is all about. manoj -- Flon's Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]