[gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-nfp] Gentoo Foundation Trustees 202106 Election Results

[Michał Górny]

On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 19:51 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto wrote:
> Ladies and Gentlemen
>
> Here are your verified election results.
>
> For the three open seats for the term 2021-2023, two seats will be
> filled by robbat2 (Robin Johnson) and antarus (Alec Warner). There is a
> tie for the 3rd seat between alicef (Alice Ferrazzi) and
> _reopen_nominations.
> Per lack of an established rule for this event and given section 5.7 of
> the Foundation ByLaws[1] we defer to the Board of Trustees how to
> proceed regarding the 3rd seat.
>
>  [1] - https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Foundation:Bylaws#Section_5.7._Vacancies

When the changes to the election process have been accepted in 2019,
the election dates were adjusted to include an optional second round
before the AGM [2].  The dates for 2020 [3] and 2021 [4] elections did
not account for the second round.  This looks a clear oversight.

A possible tie between _reopen_nominations and a candidate is definitely
something I didn't think of while proposing these changes (and I don't
think it was considered either when designing the Council elections
either).

I can think of two possible interpretations:

1. If we consider a candidate as a 'yes' vote and _reopen_nominations as
a 'no' vote, then a tie between 'yes' and 'no' causes the motion not to
pass -- so _reopen_nominations effectively wins.

2. If we consider a tie as a reason to vote again -- then the result is
roughly equivalent to reopening nominations.

Of course all of this should have happened before the AGM but now that
the milk is spilled...

[2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/73cf853e77c545ee886cbba009d93f6b
[3] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/808b87cd4c0b0f3656886d1e76d37b22
[4] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-nfp/message/08a584519f407815d7c02b8d037e45e9

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny