Discussion on voting systems

[Nikolaj Hald Nielsen]

My main concern with the bonus vote scheme is that
months_of_active_contribution  is damn hard to calculate. Some people
have been with the project forever but has hardly contributed anything
recently, some have come and gone and so on.

I personally think that a simple system with 1 vote per person should
work. The people with most seniority will always have the greatest say
in the direction of development, but being a long time developer does
not automatically make you the best person to manage funds and such.

- Nikolaj

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The transition team has been discussing schemes for how to allocate
> voting power amongst the body of voters.
>
> We are bringing this out for further discussion, mostly because us 4
> have not coalesced on a single decision.
>
> The two options are as follows:
>
> 1) 1-vote per person
> 2) 1-vote + bonus per person.
>
> bonus is calculated as follows:
>
> "
> * Every voting member starts out with 1 point as the base
> * Added to this is the percentage of active contribution time, with
> the project lifetime being 100%
>
> The equation:
>
> 1.0 + ( 1.0 / months_of_project_lifetime *
> months_of_active_contribution )
>
>
> Example calculation for a contributor who has been with the project
> for 12 months, assuming that the project is 72 months old overall:
>
> 1 + ( 1 / 72 * 12 )  = 1.17
>
> So a completely new voting member would start out with 1.0, while the
> maximum achievable score is 2.0.
> "
>
> Please do reply and get some discussion flowing. To separate myself
> from the raw facts, i'll be replying with my own personal feelings in
> another email.
>
> leo
>
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>
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