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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-39: drop hard requirement of yearly lead elections
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:48:36
Message-Id: 5599abfc7af246d575eceb5968ec01c521e138b8.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-39: drop hard requirement of yearly lead elections by Matt Turner
1 On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 10:01 -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
2 > > I think the rough point behind requiring a periodic elections is to
3 > > give
4 > > people an opportunity to issue secret votes against the current
5 > > lead,
6 > > i.e. without requiring them to publicly oppose the lead.  I'm not
7 > > saying
8 > > this is really necessary in the case of Gentoo, though.
9 >
10 > There's value in that, but prior to me pushing for the Elections team
11 > to run the last base-system lead election, had any project election
12 > actually had a secret ballot?
13
14 All the elections I've been running were via HeliosVoting, so yes, they
15 had.
16
17 --
18 Best regards,
19 Michał Górny