> > Excuse me, but your proposed solution is wholly inadequate. For example, a > few people might prefer a green bikeshed, more people might prefer blue, > yet a small majority might prefer awful grey. The greens would of course > prefer blue to grey, yet this would not be reflected in the voting outcome. > > Obviously, if this is ever to be implemented, we need a better way of > counting the votes, such as instant-runoff voting.
This doesn't make any sense. I'm not sure what you mean by "small majority", but I'm going to assume that it's a majority nonetheless. If a majority prefers gray, even if everybody who voted green and blue banded together and voted for one color, they'd still have less votes than those who voted from gray. Hence the reason for using a majority vote. On that note, I'd be perfectly fine doing a quick majority vote on small bikeshed items just so we can get them over with and so people can stop -1'ing my patchsets because of them. This especially applies in cases where there are only two choices, e.g., if( v. if (. *--* *Tyler Romeo* Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2015 Major in Computer Science www.whizkidztech.com | tylerro...@gmail.com On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Nikola Smolenski <smole...@eunet.rs> wrote: > On 23/01/13 20:38, Jon Robson wrote: > >> Suggested solution: >> Maybe some kind of voting system might be of use to force some kind of >> consensus rather than leaving problems unsolved. I'm fed up of >> receiving emails about the same problem I discussed weeks before that >> never got solved. It makes my mailbox ill. >> >> I mean if the question is really what colour is the bikeshed it would >> be good for people to propose colours, people to vote on preferred >> colours and at the end of say a week the majority colour wins and gets >> implemented (or in cases where there is no majority we discuss the >> front runners and other possible solutions). >> > > Excuse me, but your proposed solution is wholly inadequate. For example, a > few people might prefer a green bikeshed, more people might prefer blue, > yet a small majority might prefer awful grey. The greens would of course > prefer blue to grey, yet this would not be reflected in the voting outcome. > > Obviously, if this is ever to be implemented, we need a better way of > counting the votes, such as instant-runoff voting. > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l> > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
