On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Xyne <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2013-07-27 18:31 +0200 > Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote: > >>> Discussion period has ended. Start the voting: >>> https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=69 >>Le voting period has ended. Dicebot-san is now officially Dicebot-sama! >>Let's perform our ritual new-TU-group-hug. Congratulations! > > I'm sorry to have to point this out, but the proposal has not been accepted > according to our bylaws. I was going to post the final tally on the list as > per > custom: > > yes: 18 > no: 4 > abstain: 2 > total: 24 > > I thought that was a low number of votes given the recent influx of TUs, so I > checked the total number of TUs listed on the official page > (https://www.archlinux.org/trustedusers/). > > There are currently 37 active TUs. According to our bylaws > (https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html): > >> Quorum shall be 66% of all active TUs and participation shall be measured by >> the sum of YES, NO and ABSTAIN votes, UNLESS otherwise stated in a section >> of the bylaws pertaining to the proposal. >> The proposal is accepted if EITHER >> >> the number of YES votes is greater than half the number of active TUs OR >> >> quorum has been established and the number of YES votes is greater than >> the >> number of NO votes > > 18/37 < 0.5, so the first condition has not met (19 yes votes needed) > > 24/37 < 0.66, so the second condition has not been met (25 total votes needed > for quorum) > > I voted yes, so I do want this to pass, but if we just ignore the bylaws > whenever it's convenient then there's not much point to having bylaws. We > could > hold a vote to make an exception in this instance, but I'm not sure that's the > best way either. It would set a precedent for overriding the bylaws through > simple majority. > > Regards, > Xyne
Perhaps we could just run the vote again, because it would be be silly for this to be determined by a 2% gap from the required quorum. I also have my doubts that there are really 37 *active* trusted users. I managed to miss the announcement that the voting period has started because I haven't been keeping up with various mailing lists this week. If it means anything, I did plan on voting YES before life came along and distracted me.
