Bas Wijnen <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:59:12PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> It's a shame that the vote was handled in the way that it was, > Actually, I think the secretary has done a very good job in preparing > the ballot. I would like to feel that, but unfortunately, I don't think the facts support that feeling. The 3:1 majority part I can understand. That's his job, and whether I agree or not, I can't get upset at him for doing his job. However, there are several other serious irregularities in this vote: * Why does releasing despite DFSG violations require a 3:1 majority now when it didn't for etch? It's the same secretary in both cases. What changed? I didn't find any of the explanations offered for this very satisfying. * Bundling the vote against the open opposition of a fairly significant number of people, including some of the people whose amendments were grouped together, is within his power but comes across poorly. There wasn't much attempt to compromise or discuss this, and I came away from that with a bad taste in my mouth. * One role of the secretary is to interpret the constitution. The constitution states fairly clearly the process of decision-making for decisions of this type, such as whether a given package violates the DFSG, or how to weigh the implications of the Social Contract. Yet that decision-making process is not reflected in the ballot or in the presentation of the options. Option 1 is either meaningless or an override of a delegate decision, but the ballot doesn't reflect this. Option 4 looks equivalent to FD if you look at the decision-making process in the constitution, but the ballot doesn't reflect that. I think some additional clarity around that would have been very helpful. So, no, I think in this case Manoj did a poor job of preparing this ballot. (That doesn't mean that I have any problems with him personally, nor do I believe that he did so out of any ulterior motives. I think he made the decisions that he thought were correct. I just don't think they were good decisions.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
