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Ferris McCormick wrote: |
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> On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:04:58 +0100 |
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> Torsten Veller <tove@g.o> wrote: |
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>> * Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>: |
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>>> Since Cardoe was the last person from the council vote with a |
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>>> distribution that's anywhere between "more positive than negative" and |
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>>> "even", I suggest that we leave the remaining spot open rather than |
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>>> filling it with someone who the majority of developers ranked in the |
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>>> bottom half of candidates. |
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>> The "bottom half" depends somehow on the number of candidates. |
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Torsten, |
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Donnie is talking here about the relative votes each candidate received |
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and not about the rank of a candidate in relation to others. |
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>> This is the ranked list: |
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>> | 1 dberkholz |
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>> | 2 Halcy0n |
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>> | 3 Flameeyes |
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>> | 4 Betelgeuse |
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>> | 5 lu_zero |
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>> | 6 Jokey |
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>> | 7 dertobi123 |
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>> | 8 cardoe |
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>> | 9 dev-zero |
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>> | 10 leio |
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>> | 11 welp |
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>> | 12 fmccor |
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>> | 13 ulm |
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>> | 14 jer |
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>> | 15 hkBst |
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>> | 16 astinus |
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>> | 17 ferdy peper |
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>> | 18 zlin |
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>> What is the bottom half? |
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>> |
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>> By ranks: |
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>> 1-9 is the first half, and 10-18 the second. |
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>> Or did you already remove rank 18? |
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It doesn't matter if there were 18, 15 or 100 candidates in the ballot. |
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What matters is the distribution of votes. |
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>> | * Whenever a member of the Council loses their position (the reason is |
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>> | irrelevant; they could be booted for slacking or they resign or ...), then |
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>> | the next person in line from the previous Council election is offered the |
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>> | position. If they decline, it is offered to the next person in line, and so |
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>> | forth. If they accept and the current Council unanimously accepts the new |
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>> | person, they get the position with a 'reduced' term such that the yearly |
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>> | elections still elect a full group. If the Council does not accept that |
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>> | person, then a new election is held to choose a new member. |
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>> <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/meeting-logs/20070208-summary.txt> |
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>> So your options are: |
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>> - Change the rules once again. Because you can. |
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>> - Follow the rules. |
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> Based on that, it looks like the alternative to moving further down the |
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> list is to hold an election for the open spot. That seems more |
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> reasonable than leaving it open because the next election is several |
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> months away. And something might come along that needs a tie breaker |
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> vote. |
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I agree with Ferris. This election could be done with the "reduced" |
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timelines (that we should really start considering as the default |
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timelines) of 15 days to nominate + 15 days to vote. |
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> By the way, the final ranking only shows an ordering by preference. It |
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> does not say anything about whether or not the developer community |
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> would not want any of these candidates as council members. |
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> While we are at it, please remove my name from the list no matter how |
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> this gets decided. As a trustee, I am now not allowed to sit on Council |
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Ferris, |
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there's no need to remove your name from the list or anyone else's for |
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the matter. Those were the names in the ballot and the order of the |
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votes, if we are (were?) to move down the list, we would need to check |
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whether the next person would still qualify as a council member or not. |
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> Regards, |
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> Ferris |
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> -- |
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> Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Userrel, Trustees) |
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- -- |
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Regards, |
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Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org |
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Gentoo- forums / Userrel / Devrel / SPARC / KDE |
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