On Saturday, August 24, 2013 11:38 PM, drago01 wrote:
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Mathieu Bridon
<bochecha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Friday, August 23, 2013 08:34 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Paul Wouters <pwouters@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Aug 22, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but there are essentially two camps
right now. Those that don't care about release names one bit (like
me), and those that do. If those that do care want better names,
they'll need to work harder at creating meaningful suggestions.
OK I'm third camp: peanut gallery. I don't really care about release
names, I'm happier to see them go away, but insofar as we have them, I'm
playing along by a.) voting, b.) complaining. [1]
It would be good if the next vote would allow "none" as an option. I
could not vote 'none' on the last election. And I think it is important
to track the percentage of people who want to kill the meaningless
names.
That's a good suggestion for future votes.
At the moment, the best you can do is cast 0 votes for all choices.
That won't really change the outcome, but at least votes will be
recorded.
That's in fact what I did.
That begs the question: what if the elected word has received a very low
score compared to the maximum possible?
That would mean that it received a very small support from our community,
and in fact that the majority was either voting for no name or for none of
the proposed names.
If that happened, would we decide that Fedora would not be named, because no
proposal managed to raise enough support?
That's nonsense. A non vote may have different reasons you cannot
simply put them into one category. The most common reason for non
voting is lack of carrying. So the best way to deal with non votes is
to ignore them (like pretty much any reasonable election process
does).
I didn't say non-vote from people who don't care, I said people who do
care and actively vote for none of the proposals. That's very different.
And no matter the reason why that would happen, the fact is that if the
maximum possible for a name is 8000 (8 names, 1000 voters) and the best
name is elected with e.g 100 points, then that means that even the most
voted for failed to receive the support of the voters, and that as a
result it doesn't represent them.
If that happened, would we still go with a name that doesn't represent
even the people who made the effort of voting?
--
Mathieu
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