On 24 August 2013 16:38, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Mathieu Bridon > <boche...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> On Friday, August 23, 2013 08:34 PM, Josh Boyer wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Paul Wouters <pwout...@redhat.com> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Chris Murphy wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Aug 22, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but there are essentially two camps >>>>>> right now. Those that don't care about release names one bit (like >>>>>> me), and those that do. If those that do care want better names, >>>>>> they'll need to work harder at creating meaningful suggestions. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> OK I'm third camp: peanut gallery. I don't really care about release >>>>> names, I'm happier to see them go away, but insofar as we have them, I'm >>>>> playing along by a.) voting, b.) complaining. [1] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> It would be good if the next vote would allow "none" as an option. I >>>> could not vote 'none' on the last election. And I think it is important >>>> to track the percentage of people who want to kill the meaningless >>>> names. >>> >>> >>> That's a good suggestion for future votes. >>> >>> At the moment, the best you can do is cast 0 votes for all choices. >>> That won't really change the outcome, but at least votes will be >>> recorded. >> >> >> That's in fact what I did. >> >> That begs the question: what if the elected word has received a very low >> score compared to the maximum possible? >> >> That would mean that it received a very small support from our community, >> and in fact that the majority was either voting for no name or for none of >> the proposed names. >> >> If that happened, would we decide that Fedora would not be named, because no >> proposal managed to raise enough support? > > That's nonsense. A non vote may have different reasons you cannot > simply put them into one category. The most common reason for non > voting is lack of carrying. So the best way to deal with non votes is > to ignore them (like pretty much any reasonable election process > does).
Actually lack of voter involvement is a big problem in democratic countries. Smaller organisations also have the concept of quorum. What's not clear is whether the recent run of silly release names or the biannual arguing about this is actually damaging to Fedora in the long run in exchange for whatever increase in involvement it provides. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
