[ghc-steering-committee] #380 GHC2021: Voting tweaks?

[Iavor Diatchki]

OK, cool, I might play around with it, I'll post an update if I get
something working.

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 9:46 AM Joachim Breitner <mail at joachim-breitner.de>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Donnerstag, den 03.12.2020, 09:20 -0800 schrieb Iavor Diatchki:
> > Joachim, would the voting system get a lot more complicated if we
> > added a bit of ranked voting (e.g., instead of no,maybe,yes) we went
> > (-2: strong reject, -1: reject, 0: don't care, 1: accept, 2: strong
> > accept)?   At least in my votes, I have a few extensions that I
> > certainly feel strong about, and for some of them I just picked
> > something but I don't really care either way, and I don't think
> > that's captured in the votes.  Let me know if that's OK, and I'll
> > find some time to update my votes.
>
> it would be doable, but the goal is not to do a tough campaigned vote
> to squeeze in the last extension that we can somehow claim has an
> arithmetic majority of some form.
>
> If you have a -2 on FooBar, (and are maybe not the alone against 10 who
> think it’s great), that alone should be sufficient to convince all of
> us that FooBar is not “harmless, useful and uncontentious”.
>
> That’s why I removed my vote for ViewPattern after I learned, from
> mails from the Simons, that it’s more contentious than I thought.
>
> > Also, I've been busy with work, so when there are a bunch of e-mails
> > like today (which is fun!), it is hard to keep up with what people
> > have said about the many threads going on.  If we adopt the haddock
> > like commenting system, would it be possible to scrape the e-
> > mails and auto generate a summary of what people have said for
> > various things?  This could also help with a final document where we
> > not only pick the extensions, but also have some provenance about
> > what people thought about the various extensions.
>
> Yes, I have been wondering the same. Overall, this “repeat your whole
> vote by mail system” is working, but not greatly so, and we’ll probably
> try something more ergonomic next time round.
>
> Maybe I'll throw together some regexes over the weekend. The latest
> votes are all at
>
> https://github.com/nomeata/ghc-proposals-stats/tree/master/ext-stats/GHC2021
> if someone else wants to do some scraping.
>
> Cheers,
> Joachim
>
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