Hi Cor, On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 23:18 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > Thanks, I see we can study quite some mathematical variations on this > subject ;-)
:-) I suggest we have 'STV Meek Method' written into our bylaws to make it clear - we had one case where someone in GNOME was either elected or not by different methods ;-) 'Meek' (no relation) is at least repeatable - it is what OpenSolaris used too AFAIR. > However, in your example and view, you start with the idea of > candidates representing company/section/partition A or B. Rather then > random community members. Sure, but any disagreement can be simplified into an arbitrary number of two-horse races I think; the principle is basically the same - more fairness with a larger electorate. > But that can only be reached when we have experienced people on board > that do not change every 6 months. Also for documentation, qa etc, > experience is important. Sure; of course, we can only hope that the people who stand for election, and get elected are not entirely inexperienced - the electorate should help with that. > Looking at all proposals that fly rapidly around, I would prefer a > bit stability first. The next issue then would be, which form of STV or > other voting scheme would be most appropriate. So the voting scheme > should support our desired elections scheme, not the other way round. Um - I guess so, but given a fair voting scheme, the rounding issue is fairly fundamental to how aliasing / numbers work and I don't see it being easy / possible to work around. HTH, Michael. -- michael.me...@novell.com <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to steering-discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org List archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/steering-discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***