General Resolution: Debian project members
Time Line
| Proposal and amendment | Tuesday, 14th September, 2010 | |
|---|---|---|
| Discussion Period: | Saturday, 18th September, 2010 | |
| Voting Period: | 00:00:01 UTC on Tuesday, 5th Oct 2010 | 23:59:59 UTC on Monday, 18th Oct 2010 |
Proposer
Stefano Zacchiroli [zack@debian.org] [text of proposal] [amendment 1] [amendment 2 + 3] [amendment 4]
Seconds
- Christoph Berg [myon@debian.org] [mail]
- Alexander Reichle-Schmehl [tolimar@debian.org] [mail] [confirm mail]
- Sylvestre Ledru [sylvestre@debian.org] [mail]
- Manuel Prinz [manuel@debian.org] [mail]
- Enrico Zini [enrico@debian.org] [mail] [confirm mail]
- Kumar Appaiah [akumar@debian.org] [mail] [confirm mail]
- Bernd Zeimetz [bzed@debian.org] [mail]
- Philip Hands [philh@debian.org] [mail]
- Xavier Oswald [xoswald@debian.org] [mail]
- Joerg Jaspert [joerg@debian.org] [mail] [confirm mail]
- Gunnar Wolf [gwolf@debian.org] [mail]
- Faidon Liambotis [paravoid@debian.org] [mail]
- Ralf Treinen [treinen@debian.org] [mail]
- Damien Raude-Morvan [drazzib@debian.org] [mail] [confirm mail]
- Gerfried Fuchs [rhonda@debian.org] [mail]
- Simon Richter [sjr@debian.org] [confirm mail]
- Marc Brockschmidt [he@debian.org] [mail]
- Lars Wirzenius [lars@debian.org] [confirm mail]
Text
Choice 1: welcome non-packaging contributors
The Debian project aims at producing the best free operating system. To that end, the project benefits from various types of contributions, including, but not limited to: package maintenance, translations, infrastructure and website maintenance, porting, bug triaging and fixing, management activities, communication, testing, legal advice, quality assurance, etc.
The Debian project acknowledges that:
- To pursue Debian goals, package maintenance as well as a wide range of other technical and non-technical contributions are all valuable.
- Active contributors of non-packaging work, who share Debian values and are ready to uphold Debian Foundation Documents, deserve the opportunity to become Debian Developers.
The Debian project, therefore, invites the Debian Account Managers to:
- Endorse the idea that contributors of non-packaging work might become Debian Developers, albeit without upload access to the Debian archive.
- Establish procedures to evaluate and accept contributors of non-packaging work as Debian Developers.
- Initiate the appropriate technical measures to enable contributors of non-packaging work, who get accepted as Debian Developers, to participate in Debian decision making and to access Debian infrastructure.
Quorum
With the current list of voting developers, we have:
Current Developer Count = 891
Q ( sqrt(#devel) / 2 ) = 14.9248115565993
K min(5, Q ) = 5
Quorum (3 x Q ) = 44.7744346697979
Quorum
- Option1 Reached quorum: 285 > 44.7744346697979
Data and Statistics
For this GR, as always statistics shall be gathered about ballots received and acknowledgements sent periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the list of voters would be made publicly available. Also, the tally sheet may also be viewed after to voting is done (Note that while the vote is in progress it is a dummy tally sheet).
Majority Requirement
The amendment need simple majority
Majority
- Option1 passes Majority. 20.357 (285/14) >= 1
Outcome
In the graph above, any pink colored nodes imply that the option did not pass majority, the Blue is the winner. The Octagon is used for the options that did not beat the default.
- Option 1 "Welcome non-packaging contributors as project members"
- Option 2 "Further Discussion"
In the following table, tally[row x][col y] represents the votes that option x received over option y. A more detailed explanation of the beat matrix may help in understanding the table. For understanding the Condorcet method, the Wikipedia entry is fairly informative.
| Option | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| Option 1 | 285 | |
| Option 2 | 14 | |
Looking at row 2, column 1, Further Discussion
received 14 votes over Welcome non-packaging contributors as project members
Looking at row 1, column 2, Welcome non-packaging contributors as project members
received 285 votes over Further Discussion.
Pair-wise defeats
- Option 1 defeats Option 2 by ( 285 - 14) = 271 votes.
The Schwartz Set contains
- Option 1 "Welcome non-packaging contributors as project members"
The winner
- Option 1 "Welcome non-packaging contributors as project members"
Debian uses the Condorcet method for voting.
Simplistically, plain Condorcets method
can be stated like so :
Consider all possible two-way races between candidates.
The Condorcet winner, if there is one, is the one
candidate who can beat each other candidate in a two-way
race with that candidate.
The problem is that in complex elections, there may well
be a circular relationship in which A beats B, B beats C,
and C beats A. Most of the variations on Condorcet use
various means of resolving the tie. See
Cloneproof Schwartz Sequential Dropping
for details. Debian's variation is spelled out in the
constitution,
specifically, A.6.
Debian Project Secretary