STeVe -- very cool!  STeVE gets my vote :-)

~ David


On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:38 AM Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote:

> For handling ranked voting, I wonder if we could reuse Apache STeVe
> (Single Transferable Vote) which is used for the board elections.
>
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 8:20 AM Michael Sokolov <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Rank voting: we had a lengthy discussion about how to use this in my
>> book group, where we vote on which book to read. It turns out to be
>> hideously complex, depending on how you do it. We floated two systems.
>> In both, voters rank their choices from 1 to N. In one scoring system,
>> an item ranked with rank x gets score N - x + 1, and the scores are
>> tallied for each item, the item with the highest total score wins.
>> This system is pretty easy to score: we felt we could do it on a piece
>> of paper at the table in our group. We actually tried this, it was
>> kind of fun, but I think it led to the same outcome we would have had
>> from "normal" voting, in that instance.
>>
>> Voting theorists seem to prefer a system where a winning candidate is
>> chosen in multiple evaluation "rounds" by counting the top-ranking
>> votes for each voter, and if any item has a majority, it wins.
>> Otherwise, the bottom-scoring item is removed from the pool of
>> candidates, and its votes are redistributed by taking the next-ranking
>> item from each voter who had previously listed the now-removed item.
>> Or said another way, the whole process is repeated while skipping the
>> removed item. And then this goes on, removing losing items until some
>> item has a majority of top-ranked votes among the remaining tallies.
>> I guess that this has nicer game-theoretic properties than the simple
>> linear combination, but it is annoying to compute since it requires
>> maintaining every voter's distinct ranking.
>>
>> Perhaps there are other systems. We could use one logo 80% of the
>> time, and the other logo 20%? Or we could produce a Chimera?
>>
>> Ball's in your court Ryan, but I would be willing to bet that awarding
>> the winner to a plurality in a single round will get us the same
>> result as all this complication...
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 1:30 AM Ryan Ernst <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > > IMHO this vote is invalid because...
>> > > it doesn’t include the red / orange variants submitted by Dustin Haver
>> >
>> > I considered the latest submission by Dustin Haver to be his
>> submission, but I can see how some might like the other better and it
>> should have been part of the vote.
>> >
>> > > I propose to restart the VOTE to include all submissions.
>> >
>> > Given that I omitted the submission above, that seems reasonable. And
>> since we are restarting, I guess we can allow Baris to add in an entry.
>> >
>> > Baris, please add your entry to the jira issue. I will restart the vote
>> next week.
>> >
>> > > If we're going to have more options, I suggest we use "ranked voting"
>> >
>> > I considered rank voting, but tallying a rank vote by hand can be
>> incredibly tedious. I don't think we should use any external tools since
>> that prohibits verification on who is voting from the PMC. However, given
>> the lastingness of this decision, I guess it is fair to do the necessary
>> harder tallying work of rank choice voting over email. When I restart the
>> vote, I will give instructions on making multiple selections.
>> >
>> > So, consider this vote CLOSED and VOID.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 8:27 AM David Smiley <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If we're going to have more options, I suggest we use "ranked voting":
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked_voting
>> >> If you create a Google Form based submission which supports a ranked
>> choice input, then this should make it probably not hard to tally the
>> results correctly.  A PMC boolean would be helpful too.
>> >>
>> >> ~ David
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 11:14 AM Andrzej Białecki <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> IMHO this vote is invalid because it doesn’t include all submissions
>> linked to that issue. Specifically, it doesn’t include the red / orange
>> variants submitted by Dustin Haver (which I personally prefer over the
>> sickly green ones … ;) )
>> >>>
>> >>> I propose to restart the VOTE to include all submissions.
>> >>>
>> >>> On 17 Jun 2020, at 17:04, Adrien Grand <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> A. (PMC) I like that it retains the same idea as our current logo
>> with a more modern look.
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 4:58 PM Andi Vajda <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> C. (current logo)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Andi.. (pmc)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Jun 15, 2020, at 15:08, Ryan Ernst <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> Dear Lucene and Solr developers!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> In February a contest was started to design a new logo for Lucene
>> [1]. That contest concluded, and I am now (admittedly a little late!)
>> calling a vote.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The entries are labeled as follows:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> A. Submitted by Dustin Haver [2]
>> >>>>
>> >>>> B. Submitted by Stamatis Zampetakis [3] Note that this has several
>> variants. Within the linked entry there are 7 patterns and 7 color
>> palettes. Any vote for B should contain the pattern number, like B1 or B3.
>> If a B variant wins, we will have a followup vote on the color palette.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> C. The current Lucene logo [4]
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Please vote for one of the three (or nine depending on your
>> perspective!) above choices. Note that anyone in the Lucene+Solr community
>> is invited to express their opinion, though only Lucene+Solr PMC cast
>> binding votes (indicate non-binding votes in your reply, please). This vote
>> will close one week from today, Mon, June 22, 2020.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Thanks!
>> >>>>
>> >>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-9221
>> >>>> [2]
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12999548/Screen%20Shot%202020-04-10%20at%208.29.32%20AM.png
>> >>>> [3]
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12997768/zabetak-1-7.pdf
>> >>>> [4]
>> https://lucene.apache.org/theme/images/lucene/lucene_logo_green_300.png
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Adrien
>> >>>
>> >>>
>>
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