General Resolution: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian Constitution
Time Line
Proposal and amendment | 2016-07-08 | |
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Discussion Period: | 2016-07-08 | |
Voting Period: | 2016-07-31 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-08-13 23:59:59 UTC |
Proposer
Margarita Manterola [marga@debian.org] [text of proposal] [call for vote]
Choice 1: Replace Chairman with Chair
Title: Replace "Chairman" with "Chair" throughout the Debian ConstitutionAll appearances of the word Chairman shall be replaced with the word Chair.
Quorum
With the current list of voting developers, we have:
Current Developer Count = 1040 Q ( sqrt(#devel) / 2 ) = 16.1245154965971 K min(5, Q ) = 5 Quorum (3 x Q ) = 48.3735464897913
Quorum
- Option1 Reached quorum: 289 > 48.3735464897913
Data and Statistics
For this GR, like always, statistics will be gathered about ballots received and acknowledgements sent periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the list of voters will be recorded. Also, the tally sheet will also be made available to be viewed.
Majority Requirement
The proposal needs a 3:1 majority
Majority
- Option1 passes Majority. 22.231 (289/13) >= 3
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 "Replace Chairman with Chair"
- 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 | ||
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1 | 2 | |
Option 1 | 289 | |
Option 2 | 13 |
Looking at row 2, column 1, Further Discussion
received 13 votes over Replace Chairman with Chair
Looking at row 1, column 2, Replace Chairman with Chair
received 289 votes over Further Discussion.
Pair-wise defeats
- Option 1 defeats Option 2 by ( 289 - 13) = 276 votes.
The Schwartz Set contains
- Option 1 "Replace Chairman with Chair"
The winners
- Option 1 "Replace Chairman with Chair"
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.
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