Ge van Geldorp wrote:
[CSH] We haven't done secret elections before. I could go either way. If it's secret then you put a lot of power into one person, the person that collects the votes (most likely the Project Secretary). What procedure would you suggest?
No, we haven't done this before, and I didn't like it... How about the Project Secretary nominates a neutral vote counter (can be anyone, Registered or Unregistered, including the Project Secretary
himself)
which all the candidates have to affirm? Can be done in private emails between Project Secretary and candidates. That should ensure the
neutrality.
Another quick point to say that using the voting facility on the board would remove the issue of giving a 'project secretary' power in a secret vote. The software would control that ..... And software doesn't lie or cheat :)
In the way the phpbb forums voting works, each voter will only ever be able to make 1 vote, even if they have multiple usernames, as only 1 of those usernames will be in the 'developer' group.
You can even go as far as making the forum hidden from everyone not in the developer group ..... Although I think this is wrong, and should be read only to everyone else.
Ged.
-----Original Message----- From: Murphy, Ged (Bolton) [mailto:MurphyG@cmpbatteries.co.uk] Sent: 17 October 2005 09:48 To: 'ReactOS Development List' Subject: RE: [ros-dev] Constitution
This sounds reasonable. Phpbb can use the feature whereby only a set group can post in a certain section of the forum, in this case, the developer group in the voting section.
This also gives the added bonus of being a secret ballot, as Ge requested.
Comments can be made without polluting the topic, and the results can be written to the wiki.
-----Original Message----- From: Freworld [mailto:michael@freeworld.net] Sent: 17 October 2005 09:19 To: ReactOS Development List Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Constitution
Perhaps we should vote on the website rather than on the mailinglist? The mailinglist could be used for the discussion about what exactly the vote will be and to make the vote public with a link (most people don't look at the website but at the mailinglist). With the new login system it would be no problem to control that only committers can vote. This way we would have a clean overlook what decisions were taken and what was decided exactly.
If there is an interest in this I would implement it into the website.
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From: Murphy, Ged (Bolton)
Another quick point to say that using the voting facility on the board would remove the issue of giving a 'project secretary' power in a secret vote. The software would control that ..... And software doesn't lie or cheat :)
But the database administrator (i.e.: me) could... You're just moving the power from the project secretary to the dba.
In the way the phpbb forums voting works, each voter will only ever be able to make 1 vote, even if they have multiple usernames, as only 1 of those usernames will be in the 'developer' group.
You can even go as far as making the forum hidden from everyone not in the developer group ..... Although I think this is wrong, and should be read only to everyone else.
But every other developer still gets to see my vote I think? Doesn't sound like a true secret ballot.
Gé van Geldorp.
Ge van Düsseldorf wrtoe:
But every other developer still gets to see my vote I think? Doesn't sound like a true secret ballot.
I think he's suggesting using the "Poll" option, where you select whatever option and hit "Cast poll" and then it increments the appropriate option by one. The only thing you could find out from phpBB is whether or not a certain person had voted before, not what they'd voted for.
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