Re: Preparing the vote on the data race issue

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Olivier Thereaux
<Olivier.Thereaux@bbc.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Philip, good to have you back.
>
> On 29 Jul 2013, at 08:42, Philip Jägenstedt <philipj@opera.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> * There will be a single question put to the vote. Voters will chose one of three options :
>>> [snip]
>>
>> I would suggest instead that every voter rates the three options
>> (allowing the same rating for multiple choices) and that some
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method is used to pick a
>> winner. (I've used https://github.com/bradbeattie/python-vote-core and
>> Schulze before.)
>>
>> (A strictly ranked system would also be far better than a single vote,
>> even if it's not a Condorcet method.)
>
>
> I have confirmed that the W3C polling system does indeed give us the ability to run a rank-ordering vote. It does sound like a better way of running the vote. We'll go for that.

Excellent, thanks for checking!

Philip

Received on Tuesday, 30 July 2013 09:04:24 UTC