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Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

dberkholz — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:20:03 +0000

I don't find that one particularly useful for understanding the distribution of ranking. Maybe I just don't know how to read it.

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

hmh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:54:50 +0000

Well...

http://www.debian.org/vote/2009/vote_001_results.png

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

dberkholz — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:54:52 +0000

Ciaran McCreesh wrote a script for Gentoo that will make a nice graph, given a master ballot: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/council... -- and it should be easy enough to modify for another file format.

Here's an example of the output: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/council/voting-logs/council...

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

jake — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 18:35:47 +0000

> The Condorcet voting method did not really play much of a role.

I only mentioned it because that method of voting makes the "usual" reporting on the vote difference harder to do. In elections that do not allow preference voting, one can say X got Y% more of the votes to give some kind of idea of the margin of victory, but that "analysis" is not so simple for Condorcet voting.

jake

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

ballombe — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:52:32 +0000

Do not forget Mr "None of the above".

Steve McIntyre is re-elected as Debian project leader

bpearlmutter — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:45:07 +0000

> McIntyre was declared the winner over the other candidate,
> Stefano Zacchiroli, using the Condorcet voting method.

For crying out loud, there were *two* candidates! The Condorcet
voting method did not really play much of a role.