Ummm. There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. While I appreciate your
desire to wrap this up, I cannot support this method. I might also quibble
with your characterization of who is "involved" with shipping
implementations, but I think its best to dispense with the notion of
"weighted" voting entirely. In the case of a hung jury, they don't decide a
verdict by e.g. summing up the I.Q.'s of the jurors on each side. With all
due respect, there must be a better way to break the tie than you finding
statics in favor of your own choice?
If I were tasked with interpreting the results, I would note that at least
one person who voted for (a) preferred (b). So (c) wins, 6-5-1.
I actually think (b) is the best compromise, and I don't think anyone on
either side of the fence would strongly object to it.
How about if the 12 people who voted, and nobody else, re-vote with an order
of preference? I would hate to overlook a good compromise just because
people were too polarized on this issue. If you vote on this first tally,
please respond ASAP with your ranking.
My order of preference is c, b, a.
If this is too confusing, I volunteer to total up the results. I suspect
Steve would vote a, b, c, while Thomas would vote b, a, c and someone else
(Leath?) already indicated a preference of (c, b, a). I think we can all
predict the result, and ironically its the compromise solution which drew
zero votes on this first tally.
Here's the results of the sample poll (obviously I will wait for people to
state their actual preferences and not rely on my opinions):
A B C
Michael 0 1 2
Steve 2 1 0
Thomas 1 2 0
Leath 0 1 2
Totals 3 5 4
Winner: B
Some here have expressed a strong dislike for (a), and others for (c). I
don't think anyone hates (b), at least nobody has indicated as much. Its a
good compromise.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Leech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 11:34 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [oglbase-discuss] Vote results: 1 YES, 2 A
>
>
> Vote summary:
>
> Vote 1 Vote 2
> Who YES NO A B C
> Jon Leech x x
> Stuart Anderson x x
> Mark Kilgard x x
> Michael Gold x x
> Brian Paul x x
> Allen Akin x x
> Steve Baker x x
> Ron Bielaski x x
> David Blythe x x
> Brett Johnson x x
> Leath Muller x x
> Thomas Roell x x
> ---- --- --- --- ---
> 12 0 6 0 6
>
> Foo. We're tied for choices (2A) and (2C). This must be resolved.
>
> After contemplating the merits of another month of
> debate, I choose
> to resolve it pragmatically: by noting that all of the people
> voting who
> are actually involved with a shipping Linux OpenGL or Mesa
> implementation today, voted the same way - in favor of (A). That
> suffices to break the tie in favor of (A).
>
> We will now pause for obligatory flames about the blatantly
> high-handed, antidemocratic, and self-serving nature of this decision,
> as well as for whatever speculations on my ancestry,
> intelligence, moral
> integrity, and sanity may be considered apropos. My solace must lie in
> hoping that the other 143 subscribers to the oglbase list did not
> consider this issue important enough to even offer an opinion on :-)
>
> I am out of town tomorrow, and will send out the final spec on
> Wednesday.
>
> Jon Leech
> SGI
>
