[kwlug-disc] What is all this about systemd?

[William Park]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 04:31:06PM -0500, Hubert Chathi wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:26:06 -0500, Ralph Janke <txwikinger at ubuntu.com> said:
> 
> > I think one big issue (like with lots of things in Democracy) is the
> > way the vote has been set up. Besides, that it does not make sense
> > that all 4 options pass majority, ... Option 1 and 2 (Mandatory /
> > Recommended not to require one init system) should be seen in context,
> > so if I read the numbers right, Option 1 & Option 2 together had more
> > votes than option 4 (no GR required)
> 
> I think that you are misunderstanding the voting system that Debian
> uses.  Debian uses a Condorcet method, which can be seen as a
> simultaneous pairwise vote on all the options.  In essence, each vote
> encodes the voter's preference between any to options.  The winner is
> the option that wins all the pairwise votes.  So you cannot add the
> numbers for two options together to compare to a third option, because
> the voting method already compares each pair of options together.  i.e.,
> the voting method already determined that option 4 is preferred over
> option 1, and option 4 is preferred over option 2.  If you try to add
> votes together, you would be counting some votes (i.e. any vote that
> ranks both option 1 and option 2 above FD) twice.
> 
> It's a pretty awesome voting system, and once you get used to it,
> everything else seems suboptimal.

You just lost me.  I don't understand why you need 2D table for vote.
I thought voting is choosing one of N options.
-- 
William