Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-28 Thread Thue Janus Kristensen
2014-02-28 17:50 GMT+01:00 Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk: Thue Janus Kristensen writes (Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm): I am not completely sure, but I think both ways accomplish the same thing, if you always only use the = criterium. Actually

Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-27 Thread Thue Janus Kristensen
have a model in my head to understand all the consequences. Regards, Thue 2014-02-27 20:20 GMT+01:00 Ian Jackson ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk: Thue Janus Kristensen writes (Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm): There is what I consider an unnecessary problem with later

Re: Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-23 Thread Thue Janus Kristensen
From that discussion ( https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/05/msg00012.html ), Michael Ossipoff mentions a similar solution for the beat default criterium problem as my suggestion, except for a different voting system: Do a rank-balloting among all of the options, with D as one of the

Debian's custom use of Condorcet and later-no-harm

2014-02-22 Thread Thue Janus Kristensen
There is what I consider an unnecessary problem with later-no-harm [1] in Debian's use of the Condorcet voting method in the Debian Constitution §A.6.3 [2]. The problem was visible in the recent CTTE init system vote, as noted by fx Steve Langasek [3]. Given options * systemd (D) * upstart (U) *