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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 02:23:13PM +0100, Anton Khirnov 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.

My try in cooking word soup:

The system will assume you want to maximise the sum of weights of the
selected candidates.

Some examples:
If you give Jerry a weight of 10 and give Tom a weight of 9, that means
you prefer Jerry over Tom because 10 > 9
If you give Spike a weight of 20 that would mean you not only prefer Spike
over Tom OR Jerry but also over Tom AND Jerry. Because 20 > 10 + 9

OTOH if you give Spike a weight of 18 that would mean you prefer Spike over
Tom OR Jerry but you prefer Tom AND Jerry over Spike.
Because: 9   < 10    < 18     < 9 + 10
         Tom < Jerry < Spike  < Tom and Jerry

thx

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