On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 09:44:12PM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > I want to hear unbiased opinion on how debian-type voting should handle > case for tie like http://vote.debian.or.jp/rank_leader2005.html .
Unbiased is of course extremely hard to get, or at least detect whether someone is biased. > Question: > How should the tie be handled under DEBIAN type voting system. > > > Note in this case, quorum was met with 30 votes :-) Hm, quorum means getting a specific number of votes above the default option (A.6.2 in Debian constitution). Foo and Bar both seem to have failed to reach quorum (23+6 vs 25). If I'm not mistaken, that would mean NOTA/further discussion wins. In Debian, a quorum of 30 would mean 400 developers, and I note that 30 votes when having 400 developers seems a very low turnout. If you assume both choices made quorum, in Debian the current leader would chose, as s/he has casting vote (casting vote is being able to decide if normal voting results in a tie). devotee is the software used in debian to tally votes, available with a bit of googling via arch: http://www.golden-gryphon.com/cgi-bin/archzoom.cgi/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/devotee?expand (I couldn't find a regular tarball release unfortunately) --Jeroen -- Jeroen van Wolffelaar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (also for Jabber & MSN; ICQ: 33944357) http://Jeroen.A-Eskwadraat.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
