Re: Schedule for Tuesday's FESCo Meeting (2024-07-23)

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On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 5:54 AM Vít Ondruch <vondruch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Dne 24. 07. 24 v 20:17 Stephen Gallagher napsal(a):
> > On Wed, Jul 24, 2024 at 1:46 PM Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Dne 24. 07. 24 v 12:30 odp. Joe Orton napsal(a):
> >>
> >> Having a "majority rule" vote of e.g. packagers or provenpackagers on
> >> major technical decisions would be far superior, in my view. Apache
> >> communities have worked this way forever.
> >>
> >> You can always propose this as a change to our process.
> > For what it's worth, I don't believe that this process will work well.
> > I'm all for democracy, but direct democracy without compulsory voting
> > inevitably leads to "grievance-based voting", where the majority of
> > folks ignore the discussion and a plurality of voters with a strong
> > opinion effectively stuff the ballot box. The effect is to have a
> > tyranny of the (loud) minority. The closest we could get to
> > "compulsory voting" would be to require a quorum of votes to be
> > considered binding, but even the FESCo and Council elections
> > traditionally see extremely low voter turnout. I don't think we'd be
> > able to reach a sensible quorum on a referendum-based system.
>
>
> Actually, I think that this could help:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_in_Switzerland#Referendums
>
> E.g. if we figured there are lets say 20 Fedora contributors who are
> unhappy with the FESCo voting, all contributors could vote in
> "referendum" to (dis)approve.

That would be exactly what I described above as "grievance-based voting".

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