On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 12:54:41AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Practical changes: Taking the definitions of the latest GR we had, > > Current Developer Count = 1021 > Q ( sqrt(#devel) / 2 ) = 15.9765453086705 > Quorum (3 x Q ) = 47.9296359260114 > > this will mean that future GRs would need 30 other people to support > your idea. While that does seem a lot (6times more than now), > considering that a GR affects more than 1000 official Developers and > uncounted amounts of other people doing work for Debian, I think its not > too much.
Well, I disagree on that point. I just had a look at the vote.debian.org pages, checking those votes where the number of seconds exceeded 10, and found only the following ones: - Proposal F on the last vote; 17 seconds - Proposal A on 2008_002 (membership); 21 seconds - Proposal A on 2007_004 (length DPL election); 20 seconds - Amendment A on 2006_001 (GFDL); 15 seconds - Proposal E on 2004_004 (sarge release after 2004_003): 16 seconds - Amendment on 2004_002 (status of non-free): 12 seconds That's 6 out of 16 votes where _one_ amendment or proposal had more than 10 seconds; many of them had more than one amendment or proposal, but none of them had two amendments or proposals with more than 10 seconds. Now I do realize and agree that many people will probably not second something anymore once a sufficient number of seconds has been issued; but I think that, all things considered, 30 may be too much. I'm not saying that raising the bar a bit isn't a good idea; and I also fully agree that having this number depend on the number of developers is a good idea. However, raising the bar sixfold in one go is pushing it, IMO. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org