On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:01:21AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Ana Guerrero dijo [Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:51:03AM +0100]: > > > Hiding them to help people not be influenced by the previous raters > > > sounds like a pretty good idea. The idea here wouldn't be anonymity, > > > just to help people remain unbiased and make independent choices. > > > Raters would know that in the final decision, it won't be hidden. > > > > I think this would be a very good idea, my feeling is sometimes people feel > > guilty to vote less on a person who already has 3-4 votes with a given > > number of points. Or viceversa. > > So ideally, you would not see in penta the rating of the people until > > everybody in the commitee has rated them. This does not mean you can not > > see Develpoer Jane and Developer Joe already rated Developer Bernard, > > you just don't see what they voted until the end. > > OTOH, on a complex project, I know about the level of involvement some > people have on some topics. I don't know about many others. And yes, I > do let other voters' votes influence mine. >
Yeah, but you never know if other's know about that person better than you. > Probably we should rather make explicit that if you don't feel > confident about rating somebody, you should refrain from voting (for > or against). Then, a vote of 0 would mean "nobody knows this person", > a negative vote would mean "he is mostly a liability", and we would > just sponsor the positive levels. Yup. On a related note, maybe the travel sponsorship commitee wants to start already working at the best method for ranking this years before they get the list of candidates? Ana _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
