Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !

2004-06-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Manoj Srivastava writes (Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !): [stuff about voting methods] I think I've lost the plot now. I can't remember what the original point of this subthread was. I think I was trying to convince you that allowing options equal the default option to pass

Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !

2004-05-27 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:49:55PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: While I'm looking at this, A.6(3)(3) is very oddly phrased and might turn out to be buggy in the future: if anyone were to introduce a `3:2 supermajority' requirement anywhere that referred to `the Debian vote counting system' then a

Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !

2004-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Raul Miller writes (Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !): On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:53:41AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: IME people nearly always put FD ahead of the options they disagree with. However, it's possible for people to think that two options are acceptable, even

Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !

2004-05-26 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes (Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !): amended a ballot A:B:FD count against A in A-vs-B due to the the ^can Ian.

Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !

2004-05-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 May 2004 23:10:59 +0100, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The plain language of the committee's power to overrule a developer, in 6.1(4), says `this requires a 3:1 majority'. However if one tech ctte member dissents the current wording of A.6(3) would _four_ other ctte members

Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !

2004-05-25 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 12:53:41AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: IME people nearly always put FD ahead of the options they disagree with. However, it's possible for people to think that two options are acceptable, even though they have a distinct preference for one over the other. -- Raul