Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread Rodney Waldhoff
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: > It looks like there were only 69 votes cast. How many committers > do we have in all? My intuition had been that it was >> 69, but I > could be wrong. The nifty page Jim Jagielski put together at http://apache.org/~jim/committers.html (and thanks

Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Donald
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 11:18, Rodney Waldhoff wrote: > On a related note, can someone report how many subscribers are currently > on the community list? 134 -- Cheers, Peter Donald 'Most men would rather die than think. Many do.' Bertrand Russell

Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread Andrew C. Oliver
I would not expect for most votes to get more than a 25-50% turnout provided the vote is going the direction the person would like. Ken gave a subscription figure that was much higher, so I suspect that this was the result of the silent majority feeling sufficiently represented. Sanjiva Weeraw

Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread David Reid
Or that they thought the whole thing was so ridiculous that they couldn't be bothered replying... david - Original Message - From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 1:08 AM Subject: Re: comments on the votes > I would not expect for most votes t

Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: > > Ah, one personal comment, we really need a better voting system :) > > doing it by hand is boring and very time consuming :/ > > > +1 The system in ~voter (see foundation cvs) can easily be augmented. My wish list after

Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > I would not expect for most votes to get more than a 25-50% turnout > provided the vote is going the direction the person would like. Ken Exactly; I usually watch votes when they are conducted in public; and am more inclined to vote when they go th

Re: [VOTE] Openness

2002-11-03 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Andrew C. Oliver wrote: > > > Hmmm. I looked at the datestamp of the original vote message and it > looked like I was under the 78 hour window for voting. But you are > correct, it doesn't matter since I am just affirming the result. > > I thought it was 72 hrs ? ;-) Yeah, right, my mistake. 3 da

Re: comments on the votes

2002-11-03 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote: Hi Stefano, It looks like there were only 69 votes cast. Only? This is, in fact, the biggest vote round that ever took place in the ASF or in any group/project/sub-project/commitee. How many committers do we have in all? My intuition had been that it was >> 69, but I c