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clarify quorum and majority requirements in respect to debians voting system

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maybe we should just copy and paste the description from debian and add these into it?


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@ -262,13 +262,27 @@ Vc. Counting votes
The person starting the vote has to count the votes and vetoes and publish The person starting the vote has to count the votes and vetoes and publish
the result on the public developer mailing list as reply to the original vote the result on the public developer mailing list as reply to the original vote
with [VOTE-RESULTS] instead of [VOTE] in the subject with [VOTE-RESULTS] instead of [VOTE] in the subject
Vcv. Counting vetoes, an option shall be removed if the majority of leaders Vcv. Counting vetoes
that is yes >= no && yes>0 cast a veto against it and the option has less if the majority of leaders that is yes >= no && yes>0 cast a veto against an
than 2/3 majority in the vote, that is number of developer rating it higher option then it has a required supermajority of 2:1 otherwise it has a
than the default <= 2*number of developers rating it lower then the default required supermajority of 0:1 and in either case no quorum requirement
Vcc. the votes shall be counted by using the Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD Vcc. the votes shall be counted by using the Condorcet/Clone Proof SSD
Voting Method described in http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution A.6 Voting Method described in http://www.debian.org/devel/constitution A.6
Reasoning behind avoiding of a quorum and majority requirement except in
the case of vetoes
short awnser its stupid and has catastrophical failure modes
example of one such failure mode, lets assume a 1:1 majority requirement
as debian uses by default, there are 101 developers who vote, there are
3 options A,B and D the default (doing nothing / further discussions)
50 developers prefer A over B and B over discussions (A>B>D)
50 developers prefer discussions over A and A over B (D>A>B)
1 developer prefers B over discussions and discussions over A (B>D>A)
in this case A is approved by 50 of 101 developers and is droped due to
the lack of majority, B is approved by 51 of 101 developers and is not
furthermore B wins even though 100 of 101 developers prefer A over B
S. Changes to developer and Leader status S. Changes to developer and Leader status
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The majority of leaders, that is yes>no can give and take away The majority of leaders, that is yes>no can give and take away