[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming vote: TC/CC elections

[Devin Heitmueller]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 8:23 AM Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
>
> For the record, I've edited the vote description to make it more clear.
> It now looks like this:
>
>  Five people from the list below will become the members of the Technical
>  Committee (TC). Assign weights to each person according to how much you
>  want them to be in the committee (higher weight = higher preference).
>
>  The system will assume you want to maximise the sum of weights of
>  selected candidates. E.g. if X is given a weight of 10 and Y and Z have
>  weights 8 and 6 respectively, then the voting algorithm will assume you
>  prefer a committee with both Y and Z over one with X, because 14 > 10.
>  However, giving Y and Z weight of 4 and 2 instead would have expressed
>  that X is preferred to a combination of Y and Z, because 6 < 10.

Yeah, I suspect much of the confusion came from the (unintentionally)
misleading text in the original email which said, "Rank them in the
order in which you prefer them for that role.".  I almost ranked them
1-6 before reading the full voting page.

My vote (no pun intended) would be, given the vote was only put out a
few hours ago, to tell everyone the first vote is being thrown away
(without revealing the voting results), and give everyone the
opportunity to vote again now that it's been made clear how the
weighting works.

Devin

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