Re: [gentoo-project] rfc: council members and appeals

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

Dnia 14 lutego 2018 08:22:31 CET, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> napisał(a):
>>>>>> On Wed, 14 Feb 2018, Michał Górny wrote:
>
>> For the record: we currently count 3 QA members in the Council.
>> Given their abstention, that means that for any motion to pass, all
>> remaining Council members would have to vote 'yes'. If we had one
>> more QA member, all motions would automatically be rejected by
>> abstention.
>
>Huh, but we don't vote like that. For example, in the 2013-09-17
>meeting we had a motion that was accepted with 3 yes votes, 2 no
>votes, and 1 abstention (of 6 council members present).
>
>> However, I would personally lean towards changing the voting model
>> to be less silly and make abstention really distinct from 'no'.
>
>The voting model is that more than half of the votes are needed for
>a majority. Abstentions do not count as votes (so effectively this
>means that the number of yeas must exceed the number of nays).
>
>A motion does not pass if there is a tie. (Example in the same
>2013-09-17 meeting, a motion with 3 yes votes and 3 no votes was
>rejected.)

Oh, I'm sorry, I must have confused it with something else.

>
>This seems to agree with the procedure used elsewhere, see for example
>Robert's Rules of Order: http://www.robertsrules.com/faq.html#6
>
>Ulrich


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Best regards,
Michał Górny (by phone)