Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Julien Blache http://blog.technologeek.org/2008/12/14/149: [...] do not vote by ranking all options 1 to 7 [...] With that many options, the votes will end up diluted and who knows what the result will be. [And then he suggests a 312 vote for those who'd agree to it.] Is this really

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: Hi, [And then he suggests a 312 vote for those who'd agree to it.] I explicitly did not include a ballot suggestion in my post, so please don't put words in my mouth :) JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian GNU/Linux Developer - jbla...@debian.org

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 14/12/08 at 12:40 +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Julien Blache http://blog.technologeek.org/2008/12/14/149: [...] do not vote by ranking all options 1 to 7 [...] With that many options, the votes will end up diluted and who knows what the result will be. [And then he suggests a

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 11:40:56AM +, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Julien Blache http://blog.technologeek.org/2008/12/14/149: [...] do not vote by ranking all options 1 to 7 [...] With that many options, the votes will end up diluted and who knows what the result will be. [And then he

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Pierre Habouzit madco...@debian.org wrote: And that's especially why this vote is horribly broken, we can't vote for _many_ options at the same time, eventually only one is chosen, unless all the options you want to see win have been ranked equally on every single ballot out there. I hope

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Lucas Nussbaum lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net wrote: Hi, I can't see why it would be harmful to vote 7123456, if you really prefer options 2,3,4,5,6 in that order. There's no discussion that you should vote that way if you feel that way and understand what you're doing wrt the different, orthogonal

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 01:40:19PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit a écrit : The problem is, such a strategy works iff everyone votes the same Hi all, it there a place where we could dump a copy of our ballots so after a few iterations of re-voting many we eventually converge on the same combination,

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Pierre Habouzit [Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:40:19 +0100]: For example, if half of the people vote for option2 and option4 as '1' and other options below, and the other half of voters for option3 and option4 (and everything else below), then option4 passes over option2 and option3. Yay. Yes, of

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Julien BLACHE [Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:52:39 +0100]: [And then he suggests a 312 vote for those who'd agree to it.] I explicitly did not include a ballot suggestion in my post, so please don't put words in my mouth :) Sorry, honest mistake. I intended to put a paraphrased laben on those

Re: On the firmwares/Lenny vote

2008-12-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: Hi, I explicitly did not include a ballot suggestion in my post, so please don't put words in my mouth :) Sorry, honest mistake. I intended to put a paraphrased laben on those brackets, but I forgot, I'm sorry. No problem, but you got your