Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-04 Thread Harlan Lieberman-Berg
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 3:12 AM Judit Foglszinger wrote: > I think, 4K puts the bar very high (that would require 20 people). On Fri, Mar 4, 2022 at 12:39 PM Bill Blough wrote: > However, to generate further discussion, I do agree with Judit [1] that > 4K seems like a high bar. Hi Judit, Bill,

Re: Alternative: only make vote tally available to DD (or to voters)

2022-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Bill, On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 07:36:02PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > A suggestion: > > An alternative to secret vote would be to make the vote tallies only > accessible by DD (or more generally to people allowed to vote, whether > they did not not). > > This would still allow voters to

Re: GR Ballot Option: (first draft) No change to voting, recommend against GR for non-technical issues

2022-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
hi Bill, On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:12:44PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Anyway, how do we proceed here? > We should merge them! Maybe you could suggest a new wording ? given that my proposal already showed up on https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_001#textc could I please ask you (or

General resolution: voting secrecy

2022-03-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, A general resolution about voting secrecy has been started. Details about it are available at: https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_001 Kurt Roeckx Debian Project Secretary signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Debian Project Leader Elections 2022: Call for nominations

2022-03-04 Thread Debian Project Secretary - Kurt Roeckx
Hi, According to the constitution (5.2. Appointment), project leader elections should begin "six weeks before the leadership post becomes vacant, or (if it is too late already) immediately." The new project leader term starts on 2022-04-21. The time line looks like: | Period | Start

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Stefano Rivera
Hi Holger (2022.03.04_10:42:51_+) > And then, early 2022 is not the time for rushed changes like this, which > is also why I explicitly want to see "keep the status quo" on the ballot, > and not only as "NOTA", but as a real option. If we were to have such an option on the ballot, my

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:24:46PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > Hello, > > Le 04/03/2022 à 11:42, Holger Levsen a écrit : > > The GR proposal for secret voting is silent on implenentation details, > > probably because secret and transparent voting is, well, impossible to > > achieve fully,

voting secrecy GR

2022-03-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
Hi, I've put up an initial page about the GR at: https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_001 I didn't have time yet to properly record all the seconds yet, but believe the 3 option there all have the required amount of seconds, and are the only options that reached that. The 3rd option reached

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx writes: > So reading A.1.4 again, I can also see it as just saying that it really > updates when the period is over. I think it would have just been more > clear if A.1.1 said "The initial discussion period is 2 weeks." Agreed. I'm sorry that I missed that. -- Russ Allbery

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 11:54:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Kurt Roeckx writes: > > > I've been reading our new constitution about the discussion period. What > > I find is this in A.1.1: > > The discussion period starts when a draft resolution is proposed and > > sponsored. The minimum

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 01:12:23PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > One easy way for you to do that would be to send a diff to the spacing. > I could then update my branch and use the typo correction procedure in > the constitution to get this fixed. Or we can just leave it to the maintainer of the

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Ansgar" == Ansgar writes: Ansgar> Would removing the trailing space introduced by these Ansgar> changes require a separate GR? There are also other similar Ansgar> inconsistencies, e.g., one space vs. two spaces after a Ansgar> period. There are a number of cases where

Re: Alternative: only make vote tally available to DD (or to voters)

2022-03-04 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 04/03/22 at 19:36 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > A suggestion: > > An alternative to secret vote would be to make the vote tallies only > accessible by DD (or more generally to people allowed to vote, whether > they did not not). > > This would still allow voters to check the vote but

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Kurt Roeckx writes: > I've been reading our new constitution about the discussion period. What > I find is this in A.1.1: > The discussion period starts when a draft resolution is proposed and > sponsored. The minimum discussion period is 2 weeks. The maximum > discussion period is 3 weeks. >

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 01:54:36PM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: > > I also believe this advances the end of the discussion period to next > Thursday (although other actions may advance the end of the discussion > period further). I've been reading our new constitution about the discussion period.

Alternative: only make vote tally available to DD (or to voters)

2022-03-04 Thread Bill Allombert
A suggestion: An alternative to secret vote would be to make the vote tallies only accessible by DD (or more generally to people allowed to vote, whether they did not not). This would still allow voters to check the vote but would not allow outside parties to use it (unless some DD leaks it,

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 04:24:46PM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote: > > A voting system which is transparent only to some, is undemocratic and > > will lead to few people in the know, which is diagonal to Debians goals > > of openness and transparency. > > I'm not sure what you mean here. From some

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Ansgar
On Thu, 2022-03-03 at 13:54 -0700, Sam Hartman wrote: >   The next two weeks are the polling period during which >   Developers may cast their votes. [-Votes in leadership elections > are-] > [-  kept secret, even after the election is finished.-]{++} The unified diff for this looks like: -

Re: GR Ballot Option: Allow, but do not require, secret voting

2022-03-04 Thread Bill Blough
I second the ballot option quoted below. However, to generate further discussion, I do agree with Judit [1] that 4K seems like a high bar. In a general sense, if the bar is too high then the result might be indistinguishable from not allowing secret votes at all. Of course the opposite could be

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL dijo [Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 01:08:33PM +0100]: > Hi, > > I think we can establish a limitation between "secret" and "wiser > secret". I can understand that making vote transparent and secret is > likely not possible. And I am not sure that it is the purpose. The > purpose is

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
I know Holger's and Bill's proposed options are prone to change and merge, but I'll say it now and probably reaffirm it later: I second this option. While I prefer Harlan's, it has failed to gain sponsors, and I don't want to risk the complete loss of public votes in Debian. I think the

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Hello, Le 04/03/2022 à 11:42, Holger Levsen a écrit : > The GR proposal for secret voting is silent on implenentation details, > probably because secret and transparent voting is, well, impossible to > achieve fully, [...] It is possible to achieve some reasonable level of secrecy and

Re: GR Ballot Option: (first draft) No change to voting, recommend against GR for non-technical issues

2022-03-04 Thread Bill Allombert
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:21:04PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > hi Bill, > > On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 12:10:53AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Ballot Option > > = > > > > 1) The Debian project decide against changing its voting process at this > > time. > > > > 2) General

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Christian Kastner
On 2022-03-04 13:15, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >> Is init systems GR a political GR? > > yet there are people maintaining systemd and sysv in public. How is that relevant? I'm neither a systemd nor sysv maintainer, but

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Santiago Ruano Rincón
El 04/03/22 a las 12:03, Mattia Rizzolo escribió: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:42:51AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Reaffirm public voting > > == > > > > Since we can either have secret and intransparent voting, or we can have > > open and transparent voting, the project

Re: GR Ballot Option: (first draft) No change to voting, recommend against GR for non-technical issues

2022-03-04 Thread Mathias Behrle
* Bill Allombert: " GR Ballot Option: (first draft) No change to voting, recommend against GR for non-technical issues" (Thu, 3 Mar 2022 00:10:53 +0100): > Dear developers, > > I propose the following ballot option for the current GR: > > Ballot Option > = > > 1) The Debian

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Mathias Behrle
* Philip Hands: " Re: Reaffirm public voting" (Fri, 04 Mar 2022 13:23:32 +0100): > Holger Levsen writes: > > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:03:22PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:42:51AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > >> > Reaffirm public voting > >> >

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Philip Hands
Holger Levsen writes: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:03:22PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:42:51AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >> > Reaffirm public voting >> > == >> > >> > Since we can either have secret and intransparent voting, or we can have >>

Re: GR Ballot Option: (first draft) No change to voting, recommend against GR for non-technical issues

2022-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
hi Bill, On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 12:10:53AM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > Ballot Option > = > > 1) The Debian project decide against changing its voting process at this > time. > > 2) General resolutions that probe developpers opinions about non-technical > issues > outside the

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 06:41:54AM -0500, Tiago Bortoletto Vaz wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > I'm pretty sure some gave double thoughts before voting because of the > > shitstorm/flame that had happened before the vote. > > This has been argued

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > Is init systems GR a political GR? yet there are people maintaining systemd and sysv in public. so what's next, secret maintainers? -- cheers, Holger ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Hi, I think we can establish a limitation between "secret" and "wiser secret". I can understand that making vote transparent and secret is likely not possible. And I am not sure that it is the purpose. The purpose is not to see displayed on a public website one name related to a GR and a

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:14:56PM +0100, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: > > Mattia Rizzolo wrote on 04/03/2022 at 12:03:22+0100: > > > [[PGP Signed Part:Signature made by expired key 0816B9E18C762BAD Mattia > > Rizzolo ]] > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:42:51AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > >>

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Mattia Rizzolo wrote on 04/03/2022 at 12:03:22+0100: > [[PGP Signed Part:Signature made by expired key 0816B9E18C762BAD Mattia > Rizzolo ]] > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:42:51AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: >> Reaffirm public voting >> == >> >> Since we can either have

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 12:03:22PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:42:51AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Reaffirm public voting > > == > > > > Since we can either have secret and intransparent voting, or we can have > > open and transparent voting,

Re: Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Mar 04, 2022 at 10:42:51AM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > Reaffirm public voting > == > > Since we can either have secret and intransparent voting, or we can have > open and transparent voting, the project resolves to leave our voting > system as it is. > > Rationale:

Reaffirm public voting

2022-03-04 Thread Holger Levsen
Reaffirm public voting == Since we can either have secret and intransparent voting, or we can have open and transparent voting, the project resolves to leave our voting system as it is. Rationale: The GR proposal for secret voting is silent on implenentation details,

Re: Amendment to GR Option 1: Hide Identities of Developers Casting a Particular Vote

2022-03-04 Thread Pierre-Elliott Bécue
Hi, I'm still happy with sponsoring the following ballot option. Sam Hartman wrote on 03/03/2022 at 21:54:36+0100: > [[PGP Signed Part:No public key for 2C6C4C3CA8378674 created at > 2022-03-03T21:54:36+0100 using EDDSA]] > > I hereby amend the ballot option I proposed using the procedure in