Who may vote

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 25.05.2013, 14:54 +0100 schrieb Ian Lynagh:
> A few people have used the word "vote", but we don't vote on library
> proposals. If we wanted to change that then we would first need to
> answer the question of who was elligible to vote.

more structure in the decision making would be helpful. Also, the +1/-1
mailing list voting is everything but efficient, and I have pity for
those who manually track and count the votes.

I assume that everyone involved here has a hackage account, or would not
mind getting one. How about a small web app on hackage.org that allows
everyone (with an account) to start a poll, or to extend a poll with
additional options, and to vote on the poll.

Then the tallying would be much easier (i.e. automatic). Also, just to
put a bit more meriocracy into the process, the tally could have several
columns: One just the number of votes for each option, then one with the
votes weighted by number of packages uploaded by the voter on hackage,
and then one with the votes weighted by number of packages × reverse
dependencies.

I’d deliberately put in several metics at once to stress that this is
_not_ a binding vote with clear majority requirements, but it would
allow the final evaluation to have a much clearer picture of the level
of consensus. Also we do not put too much emphasis on these numbers, to
avoid people uploading packages just for the stats.¹

Greetings,
Joachim

¹ like I once did a mostly trivial upload during a Hackathon just to get
into the raffle for a signed copy of RWH, which actually worked :-)

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