On 08/10/07 at 17:33 +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > Hi, > > During the discussion on the proposed social committee, I proposed that we > elect (all) the members of that committee. The Debian Constitution currently > doesn't provide for a way to do so - it only describes how a single winner > is decided. > > So, I proposed the following addition to the section A.6. Vote Counting > (part of appendix A Standard Resolution Procedure): > > + If the election requires multiple winners, the list of winners is > + created by sorting the list of options by ascending strength. > + If there are multiple winners with the same ranking which exceed > + the desired length of the list, the length of the list is extended > + to include the entire last set of multiple winners. > > Is this technically sound? I don't know voting method syntax.
couldn't we get cycles using that? Alternatively, we could iteratively elect: - winner1: the winner with all candidates - winner2: the winner with all candidates minus winner1 - winner3: the winner with all candidates minus [winner1, winner2] - etc using the same tally sheet Or, we could elect a list directly (ie each option is a list of people willing to work together as SC), which would allow to elect a SC which is actually representative for Debian. It's probably better than the first solution, as the first solution isn't clone-proof: we could have elected n Sams!! ;) -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
