: Being the likely two candidates for winning. My guess is that : narrowing to the two most popular options first would make #2 the : winner, while voting on the top 10 (w/o any strategy for winning) : would make #1 the winner.
limiting to only voting for the top 2 seems unrepresentative since more then one apache_solr_c_red.jpg variant tied for 2nd. : fun, fun. So people who want one of these options to win should vote : only for that option, really. Perhaps instead of just ranking top 5, we should ask committers to rank all of the choices on the final ballot to eliminate the "strategy" factor you are refering to ... i think we can trust all committers to understand this, but if someone botches it (or refuses?) we'll just shift the number of points each item earns down by the appropraite number (so if you want your 1st rank to earn 10 points, you must list all 10, if you only list 4 then your top ranked item only earns 4 points) that won't violate anything in the rules as orriginally spelled out, and should help take into account the variant score dilution. (even though i don't think we should be overly accomidating this seems fair) -Hoss
