Python Governance Electoral System

[brettcannon]

@njs

We’re going to switch to “pure Condorcet”. I (or any admin) can close the poll whenever, but it seems pretty clear that’s where we’re going and people will generally be happy with it.

If no one beats me to it I can update the PEP to use Condorcet and a draft ballot tomorrow (and can lock the poll then).

@njs

We should put “Further discussion” on the ballot, so everyone can vote against it and show the the world that we’re ready to move on.

I still don’t see the need as I think it’s pretty obvious we all want to move on. But if people really want to have that field to almost automatically write the largest number (and thus the lowest ranking) on the ballot then fine by me.

@njs

There’s still substantive disagreement about how to handle potential ties. It sounds like everyone is OK with having the “first pass” tie-breaking method to be a time-boxed extension of the discussion/voting (e.g., “extend the voting period for 1 week”). If that still fails, then what? Some people want to keep extending the discussion until there’s a clear result, others want to switch to some other tie-breaking method, and for the latter there have been a bunch of suggestions (send to the PSF board, roll a die (possibly a cryptographically verifiable die), ask Guido, use a fallback voting system like plurality, …).

I’ll plan to update the PEP to say we will hold weekly votes until the tie is broken which should be scary enough to get people to change on the first re-vote to break any tie/cycle. If someone wants to start a separate thread to discuss this and potentially hold another poll then that’s fine.