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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-39: drop hard requirement of yearly lead elections
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:48:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5599abfc7af246d575eceb5968ec01c521e138b8.camel@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEdQ38Fz5EL3Yn76JedqL8bBKR3c_3M9YGnytgCreTcJ_bBgeA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 10:01 -0500, Matt Turner wrote:
> > I think the rough point behind requiring a periodic elections is to
> > give
> > people an opportunity to issue secret votes against the current
> > lead,
> > i.e. without requiring them to publicly oppose the lead.  I'm not
> > saying
> > this is really necessary in the case of Gentoo, though.
> 
> There's value in that, but prior to me pushing for the Elections team
> to run the last base-system lead election, had any project election
> actually had a secret ballot?

All the elections I've been running were via HeliosVoting, so yes, they
had.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny



  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-09 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-08  0:31 [gentoo-project] [PATCH] glep-39: drop hard requirement of yearly lead elections ajak
2022-11-08  8:17 ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-11-08 16:59   ` John Helmert III
2022-11-09  5:46     ` Michał Górny
2022-11-09 15:01       ` Matt Turner
2022-11-09 15:48         ` Michał Górny [this message]
2022-11-08  8:38 ` Florian Schmaus
2022-11-08 16:55   ` John Helmert III
2022-11-08 20:09     ` Ulrich Mueller
2022-11-17 16:13 ` John Helmert III

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