Konst, Please links Nic sent out - essentially STV with a single winner becomes IRV: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting
A helpful flowchart: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IRV_counting_flowchart.1.png Btw, thanks for the links Nic! Arun On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Konstantin Shvachko wrote: > Arun, > how do you plan to count the vote on this? > Could you please publish the formula. > Thanks, > --Konst > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: >> We've discussed several options: >> >> (1) Rename branch-0.22 to branch-2, rename branch-0.23 to branch-3. >> (2) Rename branch-0.23 to branch-3, keep branch-0.22 as-is i.e. leave a hole. >> (3) Rename branch-0.23 to branch-2, keep branch-0.22 as-is. >> (4) If security is fixed in branch-0.22 within a short time-frame i.e. 2 >> months then we get option 1, else we get option 3. Effectively postpone >> discussion by 2 months, start a timer now. >> (5) Do nothing, keep branch-0.22 and branch-0.23 as-is. >> >> Let's do a STV [1] to get reach consensus. >> >> Please vote by listing the options above in order of your preferences. >> >> My vote is 3, 4, 2, 1, 5 in order (binding). >> >> The vote will run the normal 7 days. >> >> thanks, >> Arun >> >> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote >> -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
