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["David Brown" <dmlb2000 AT gmail.com>]

On 4/26/06, Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> As Jeremy Blosser (emrys) has requested a vote of the Team Leads if his
> proposal (attached) is seconded (it was, by David Kowis
> (dkowis/kittah)), we have here a vote. :)
>
> I believe Jeremy (correct me if I'm wrong) would like this vote to
> follow the guidelines attached, which means:
> * All votes must be GPG signed by a valid key listed on
> http://www.sourcemage.org/keysigning
> * Only Team Leads have a binding vote
> * Other developers may post a vote, but it is advisory only
> * Votes go to the mailing list (sm-discuss) with a +1 (yes) ,+/-0
> (abstain) ,-1 (no)
> * At least 51% of the Leads must vote for the vote to be valid
> * At least 51% of the voting Leads must vote +1 for the issue to pass
> * Non-Leads may veto the process after the vote has finished
>   * At least 51% of all developers (Lead + General) must vote
>   * At least 67% of the voting  developers must vote +1 for the veto to pass

I think 'Simple Majority' or 'Two-thirds Majority' [0] should be the
terms used instead of raw percentages since if it's 50.5% for and
49.5% against in a 'simple majority' case that would pass...

Unless 51% is actually what you want...

- David Brown

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermajority