Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (253 mails)

[Jordi Massaguer Pla <jordi.massaguer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

El dc 05 de 03 del 2008 a les 13:37 +0000, en/na Benji Weber va
escriure:
> On 05/03/2008, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <jzb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Pascal Bleser
> >  <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  >  Secondly, we do think that members should have a higher weight, as they
> >  >  have signed the Guiding Principles and are recognized as active
> >  >  contributors. Maybe we should even restrict the right to vote to
> >  >  "official members". To be discussed.
> >
> >
> > The logistics on this are going to be tough. We should probably limit
> >  voting to members who have signed the Guiding Principles as we need
> >  some way to verify that each person only gets one vote.
>
> Defining the electorate is indeed difficult. Signing the guiding
> principles is one of the requirements for membership, so all members
> will have signed them. There is no problem with allowing members to
> vote. There is a problem if we want to allow people who are not
> members to vote. Anyone may also sign the guiding principles by
> creating an account on users.opensuse.org - There is no way of
> preventing one person from creating hundreds of accounts on
> users.opensuse.org, or that they actually agree to the guiding
> principles just because they tick the box on users.opensuse.org.
>
> I can't think of a good way of allowing people who are not members to
> vote without risking allowing people to sabotage the openSUSE
> elections and vote in someone unsuitable. There are ways to reduce the
> risk. e.g. multiple rounds of voting; voters approved by members;
> However, these do not really solve either the problem of a
> board-elected electorate, or the problem of malicious people
> influencing the outcome.
>
> I would be interested if anyone can propose a system whereby
> non-members can also vote.

I think only members should vote. Membership is defined as people who
has done or does stuff for openSUSE and really wants openSUSE be better.
These should be the ones allowed to vote. 

Moreover, as only members were allowed to vote, more people would like
to be members and join activelly openSUSE.

Otherwise, it is too easy to sabotage.

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