Fedora Project and Fedora Board

David Riches david.r at ultracar.co.uk
Sat May 14 09:48:28 UTC 2011


On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Robert 'Bob' Jensen
  <bob at fedoraunity.org> wrote:
  
  > One of my requirements to accepting the nomination is that at least 10 people have to pledge all their Fedora Board votes exclusively to me, this means you don't give "range votes" to anyone else. You also put your name on the wiki page endorsing me, post about it on your blog, your facebook, the footers in your emails.
  
  This seems an absolutely insane requirement, and very much against
  what Fedora stands for (or at least what I believe Fedora stands for).
  Fedora is a meritocracy, in which the people that rise to the top do
  it by doing actual work, not by pulling publicity stunts like this.
  You say that this is not about popularity, but then proceed to pull
  something like this (which amounts to no more than attempting to raise
  your popularity, and artificially diminish votes for others).
  
  Also, destroying the confidentiality of the voting process (which is
  what you're doing by forcing people to come out and say how they
  voted) destroys the integrity of said process, in any context (be it
  an election for the Fedora Board or the President of the United
  States)
  
  As someone that's running for election, that's all I'm going to say on
  this matter. However, with me, people are free to vote any way that
  they choose :)Its academic at this point, as Bob's personal requirement of 10 endorsements has been met.....let battle commence :-)

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