F20 release name election?

[Ian Malone]

On 24 August 2013 16:38, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Mathieu Bridon
> <bochecha at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Friday, August 23, 2013 08:34 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 10:29 PM, Paul Wouters <pwouters at redhat.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 22 Aug 2013, Chris Murphy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Aug 22, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not necessarily disagreeing, but there are essentially two camps
>>>>>> right now.  Those that don't care about release names one bit (like
>>>>>> me), and those that do.  If those that do care want better names,
>>>>>> they'll need to work harder at creating meaningful suggestions.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> OK I'm third camp: peanut gallery. I don't really care about release
>>>>> names, I'm happier to see them go away, but insofar as we have them, I'm
>>>>> playing along by a.) voting, b.) complaining. [1]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would be good if the next vote would allow "none" as an option. I
>>>> could not vote 'none' on the last election. And I think it is important
>>>> to track the percentage of people who want to kill the meaningless
>>>> names.
>>>
>>>
>>> That's a good suggestion for future votes.
>>>
>>> At the moment, the best you can do is cast 0 votes for all choices.
>>> That won't really change the outcome, but at least votes will be
>>> recorded.
>>
>>
>> That's in fact what I did.
>>
>> That begs the question: what if the elected word has received a very low
>> score compared to the maximum possible?
>>
>> That would mean that it received a very small support from our community,
>> and in fact that the majority was either voting for no name or for none of
>> the proposed names.
>>
>> If that happened, would we decide that Fedora would not be named, because no
>> proposal managed to raise enough support?
>
> That's nonsense. A non vote may have different reasons you cannot
> simply put them into one category. The most common reason for non
> voting is lack of carrying. So the best way to deal with non votes is
> to ignore them (like pretty much any reasonable election process
> does).

Actually lack of voter involvement is a big problem in democratic
countries. Smaller organisations also have the concept of quorum.
What's not clear is whether the recent run of silly release names or
the biannual arguing about this is actually damaging to Fedora in the
long run in exchange for whatever increase in involvement it provides.

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