Oops, meant to link: http://steve.apache.org/
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 at 16:08 Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote: > Few days late to this, and I don't want to muddy the waters, especially > after the work to clear them was done by "set of people who are not me", > but... Apache has this cool Single Transferable Vote (STV) tool that we > could use for Step 2 of your plan there. > > Basically, it works like this: we load all of the options into the system > once we're ready to vote, and then we send out a vote email to everyone who > wishes to vote. Those people then log in, and arrange the logos in the > order that they prefer them. Once that's over, the system uses the STV algo > to give us an ordered list of most prefered logos. > > I'm not sure if this would limit the vote to just committers or not. But > if this is something we think could work for this, we can check that out > and see what's involved in getting this set up for us. > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 at 03:22 Johs Ensby <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Joan, >> corrected my post on https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4547164 < >> https://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4547164> accordingly >> johs >> >> > On 24 Mar 2015, at 03:12, Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks, Johs. I proposed this approach during the weekly IRC meeting >> > last week, and the PMC members present agreed. We reviewed the >> discussion >> > on the PMC mailing list and Robert took the great action of writing >> > it up and formalising it for this list. >> > >> > Teamwork! >> > >> > -Joan >> > >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Johs Ensby" <[email protected]> >> > To: [email protected] >> > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2015 7:54:48 PM >> > Subject: Re: [NOTICE] CouchDB logo process & decision >> > >> > Community is fantastic, especially with a healthy dose of leadership >> > Like this:) >> > johs >> > >> >> On 24 Mar 2015, at 00:20, Robert Kowalski <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> >> I would like to give you an update regarding the process for the new >> >> logo design. Sorry that it took so long and for the confusion, but we >> >> finally found a way to decide on the logo and move forward regarding >> >> this topic. The process will have three steps: >> >> >> >> >> >> Step 1 - You can still submit proposals and we will also propose the >> >> old CouchDB logo as a possible candidate until April 5 >> >> >> >> >> >> Step 2 - We will then run a public vote for all committers on this >> >> mailing list ([email protected]) (see “Non-technical >> >> decision” in our bylaws [1]) by April 20. This vote will inform the >> >> decision made in Step 3. >> >> >> >> >> >> Step 3 - The PMC will vote on a final decision by May 18, which will >> >> take the public vote as significant input. The PMC can decide to go >> >> with the results of the public vote, or make its own choice. >> >> >> >> >> >> [1] http://couchdb.apache.org/bylaws.html#types >> > >> >>
