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Re: [opensuse-project] From today's openSUSE board meeting: Who can vote for the openSUSE board?
- From: "Benji Weber" <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:11:00 +0000
- Message-id: <d6b310ce0803171911i589989b2y66d27755c56893d9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On 17/03/2008, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
My thoughts:
- Anyone
(Anyone at all, Or any identity that has signed the guiding principles)
This is so open to abuse that IMHO doing it this way is almost as bad
as no elections at all. One can have no confidence that the result is
indicative of anything.
This is the only method I object to.
- Only members
By far the simplest solution. Might also encourage people to apply for
membership. This is how pretty much every other project does it.
The main criticism of this approach is that members are those who have
a "continued and substantial" contribution to the project, wheras
ideally any contributor should be allowed to vote, however small the
contribution.
- members + non-members members vouch for (web-of-trust alike)
Allows nearly all contributors to vote if they wish. However, it is
more open to abuse, particularly by members who would essentially have
infinite votes if they wanted to abuse their position.
This option could work. But it requires a lot more planning. It would
be best if the electoral role were publically viewable so that people
can review those registered to vote to help reduce fraud. It seems
almost like creating a second tier of membership though.
The biggest problem with this option is the increase in complexity.
You have to consider all sorts of implementation details like who
members are allowed to allow to vote. The bikeshedding on this topic
is bad enough already, the more details there are to be decided the
more difficult a decision is.
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Benjamin Weber
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- basically three different proposals:
+ only members
+ anyone
+ members + non-members members vouch for (web-of-trust alike)
My thoughts:
- Anyone
(Anyone at all, Or any identity that has signed the guiding principles)
This is so open to abuse that IMHO doing it this way is almost as bad
as no elections at all. One can have no confidence that the result is
indicative of anything.
This is the only method I object to.
- Only members
By far the simplest solution. Might also encourage people to apply for
membership. This is how pretty much every other project does it.
The main criticism of this approach is that members are those who have
a "continued and substantial" contribution to the project, wheras
ideally any contributor should be allowed to vote, however small the
contribution.
- members + non-members members vouch for (web-of-trust alike)
Allows nearly all contributors to vote if they wish. However, it is
more open to abuse, particularly by members who would essentially have
infinite votes if they wanted to abuse their position.
This option could work. But it requires a lot more planning. It would
be best if the electoral role were publically viewable so that people
can review those registered to vote to help reduce fraud. It seems
almost like creating a second tier of membership though.
The biggest problem with this option is the increase in complexity.
You have to consider all sorts of implementation details like who
members are allowed to allow to vote. The bikeshedding on this topic
is bad enough already, the more details there are to be decided the
more difficult a decision is.
--
Benjamin Weber
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