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Richard Freeman wrote:
| Duncan wrote:
|> Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o> posted
|> 20080603222620.71c89a1e@..., excerpted below, on
|> Tue, 03
|> Jun 2008 22:26:20 -0600:
|>
|>> AFAIR nominating has always been open to anyone, dev and user alike.
|>
|> Which does make sense.  Giving the community nomination power gives
|> them some input, while limiting the actual power and damage potential,
|> since they can't vote on their nominees, only devs do.  As with any
|> nominee, if the devs don't like them, they simply vote for someone
|> else.  No harm done unless the devs consent to it.
|>
|
| Agreed, but since there is a trend towards taking everything literally
| these days I do want to point out that this opens up a DoS attack - you
| could end up with a ballot 40 miles long if people use throwaway email
| addresses to make and second and accept nominations.
|

Richard,

you're forgetting that only devs can be nominated and that one has to
accept a nomination to be part of the ballot. At most, you could have
the total number of devs on the ballot and that is something you can't
prevent.

| Normally I'd just assume that if this were to happen common sense would
| prevail and these nominations would be excluded, but since there is a
| trend towards policy-trumps-sense perhaps the policy should be that
| anybody can nominate, but only devs can second a nomination?  After all,
| if not even one dev supports a nomination what is the point of putting
| it on a ballot that only devs vote on?  We could call the policy
| G:ACNBDMS (Gentoo: Anybody can nominate but devs must second) in tribute
| to another project where ability to quote policy is becoming more
| important than ability to add value...  :)

No need to complex rules here. See above point.

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Regards,

Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE
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