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  • Re: Do we want to Handle Secret Ballots in the same GR as Voting Change

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Louis-Philippe_V=c3=a9ron@21:1/5 to Sam Hartman on Mon Nov 8 18:20:02 2021
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    On 2021-11-08 12 h 01, Sam Hartman wrote:


    Russ made a final call for informal discussion.
    I'd like to ask the community whether we'd like to handle secret ballots
    now, or in a separate GR.

    I'd tend to be in favor of making this a separate GR.

    Although I welcome Russ' & al. efforts in modernising our voting
    mechanism, I have to say the proposed changes are already complex enough
    that I haven't found the time and energy to go through them seriously.

    Adding yet another change to this proposal would only make things more
    complex and make the issues at hand harder to understand.

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  • From Holger Levsen@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 8 18:30:02 2021
    On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 12:12:33PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
    I'd like to ask the community whether we'd like to handle secret ballots now, or in a separate GR.
    I'd tend to be in favor of making this a separate GR.
    [...]
    Adding yet another change to this proposal would only make things more complex and make the issues at hand harder to understand.

    all of this and additionally personally I'd also find it disrespectful to hijack/piggyback (on) Russ' work.


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  • From Sam Hartman@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 8 18:40:02 2021
    Holger> all of this and additionally personally I'd also find it
    Holger> disrespectful to hijack/piggyback (on) Russ' work.


    I'm frustrated reading this message because it sounds like you've jumped
    to the assumption that I'm hijacking Russ's work without coordinating
    with him.
    I don't think you've asked either Russ or me that.
    As it turns out, Russ, Pierre-Elliott and I have been discussing voting
    changes for months, and we've been splitting the energy of who works on
    what.
    Pierre-Elliott was originally working on secret ballots, but got busy
    and was in favor of me bringing the question forward.

    I hope that in similar future situations, you ask rather than jumping to disrespect.

    --Sam

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Holger Levsen on Mon Nov 8 19:10:02 2021
    Holger Levsen <[email protected]> writes:
    On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 12:12:33PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:

    I'd tend to be in favor of making this a separate GR.
    [...]
    Adding yet another change to this proposal would only make things more
    complex and make the issues at hand harder to understand.

    all of this and additionally personally I'd also find it disrespectful to hijack/piggyback (on) Russ' work.

    Sam asked me explicitly if I would mind if he took this approach before bringing it up here and I have (and had) no objections. (I have no strong feelings either way about whether to run this as a separate GR and am
    happy to go with whatever the project consensus seems to be.)

    --
    Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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  • From Richard Laager@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 8 18:50:02 2021
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    Your proposal seems fine at first glance. I would prefer to see this
    handled as a separate GR. If they don't conflict textually, you could
    run them in parallel, but honestly I'd prefer to see them run in series.
    A few more weeks of delay doesn't seem to be a problem for this topic.

    --
    Richard


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  • From Holger Levsen@21:1/5 to Sam Hartman on Mon Nov 8 19:10:02 2021
    On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 10:38:01AM -0700, Sam Hartman wrote:
    Holger> all of this and additionally personally I'd also find it
    Holger> disrespectful to hijack/piggyback (on) Russ' work.
    I'm frustrated reading this message because it sounds like you've jumped
    to the assumption that I'm hijacking Russ's work without coordinating
    with him.

    I'm frustrated you read "I would find it disrectful" as disrespectful.
    I didn't know whether you coordinated with Russ and I did not claim
    anything in that regard.

    *I* find it disrespectful to piggyback on Russ' proposal and I respect
    you and Russ disagree with me.

    I hope that in similar future situations, you ask rather than jumping to disrespect.

    Same same.

    And, I'd hope that in the future a GR on secret ballots will fail. Because, they won't be secret (because they cannot be in technical terms) and
    they would fuel a cabal.

    And there should be less cabals in Debian.

    If you find this opinion disrespectful as well...


    --
    cheers,
    Holger

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  • From Felix Lechner@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Mon Nov 8 19:10:02 2021
    Hi

    On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 9:38 AM Sam Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:

    rather than jumping to disrespect.

    Please let's not fight fire with fire. I found Holger's comment quite compassionate—at least compared to the comments he directed at me—and
    would like to congratulate him.

    He did not know that his facts were off. Neither did anyone else.

    Kind regards
    Felix Lechner

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  • From Pierre-Elliott =?utf-8?Q?B=C3=A9cue@21:1/5 to Holger Levsen on Tue Nov 9 20:30:01 2021
    Holger Levsen <[email protected]> wrote on 08/11/2021 at 18:21:02+0100:

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    On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 12:12:33PM -0500, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
    I'd like to ask the community whether we'd like to handle secret ballots >> > now, or in a separate GR.
    I'd tend to be in favor of making this a separate GR.
    [...]
    Adding yet another change to this proposal would only make things more
    complex and make the issues at hand harder to understand.

    all of this and additionally personally I'd also find it disrespectful to hijack/piggyback (on) Russ' work.

    Hi Holger,

    Sorry if it seemed (as I'm one of the drafters of the secret ballot and
    Russ' proposal, I feel a bit responsible for this) that there was an
    attempt to hijack anything.

    A bit of context:

    When the GR about RMS occurred, I expressed my intent to have some
    changes made to the Constitution, in particular regarding secret
    voting. Russ reacted because he had also things in his mind he wanted to
    see become more concrete and we started a discussion that took quite
    some time at a time when I was a bit more available. Sam joined us in
    the discussion and Wouter also at some point recently.

    Then, and I'm at fault I think (because I got drowned in my personal
    life stuff and did not state it clearly to Sam and Russ), things kind of
    went under the dust until we attempted to resume.

    In the meantime, it became clear that proposing Secret Voting and the
    other changes was not going to be easy because it made quite a lot. So
    Russ went on with everything except Secret Voting.

    Then, we realized that we could probably add Secret voting (if it felt
    right to everyone) as the discussion on Russ' proposal didn't go in a
    too consuming spiral.

    Russ said he was not against the idea.

    Hence Sam's mail, which, despite what it could have inspired to you, is
    not an attempt to hijack or piggyback any work made by Russ or anyone
    else.

    I hope this helps.

    Cheers! :)

    --
    PEB

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  • From Bdale Garbee@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Nov 10 04:10:01 2021
    Pierre-Elliott Bécue <[email protected]> writes:

    Then, we realized that we could probably add Secret voting (if it felt
    right to everyone) as the discussion on Russ' proposal didn't go in a
    too consuming spiral.

    Perahaps this exposes a distinction between those of you who have spent
    a lot of time thinking about these issues recently and feel that they
    all more or less are part of the same whole, and others of us who are
    trying to follow along relatively casually knowing we'll be asked to
    vote at some point?

    I'm pretty confident we can collectively figure out how to vote
    meaningfully in either case, but I'd personally prefer to see secret
    voting treated as a separate GR with opportunities for significant
    consensus building before a vote is called.

    Bdale

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  • From Bdale Garbee@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Nov 10 04:20:01 2021
    Louis-Philippe Véronneau <[email protected]> writes:

    I'd tend to be in favor of making this a separate GR.

    I agree.

    Bdale

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  • From Carsten Leonhardt@21:1/5 to Sam Hartman on Wed Nov 10 13:40:02 2021
    Sam Hartman <[email protected]> writes:

    new:
    6. Votes are cast in a manner suitable to the Secretary. The
    Secretary determines for each poll whether voters can change their
    votes.

    The manner needs to also be suitable to the voters.

    FTR, I'd also prefer a separate GR.

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  • From Sam Hartman@21:1/5 to All on Wed Nov 10 17:40:01 2021
    "Carsten" == Carsten Leonhardt <[email protected]> writes:

    Carsten> FTR, I'd also prefer a separate GR.

    Since no one prefers combining these efforts, let's come back to secret
    ballots after Russ's resolution is resolved.

    Carsten> Sam Hartman <[email protected]> writes:
    >> new: 6. Votes are cast in a manner suitable to the Secretary. The
    >> Secretary determines for each poll whether voters can change
    >> their votes.

    Carsten> The manner needs to also be suitable to the voters.

    Thanks for bringing this issue forward.

    Looking over the constitution, it looks like the
    developers as a whole have no recourse if they disagree with a decision
    of the secretary.
    We can bikeshed on what rules lawyering we could apply to effectively
    get to a new secretary in the shortest time in that case.
    (Yes, I do see paths for doing that).
    Instead, let's not and consider the idea that we should provide some
    mechanism for the developers to disagree with the secretary over
    something like this.
    And yes, I think it's fine for that to be part of the secret ballot
    work.




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