General Resolution: Declassification of debian-private list archives

Time Line
Proposer
Seconds
Text
Amendment Proposer
Amendment Seconds
Amendment Text
Quorum
Data and Statistics
Majority Requirement
Outcome

Note:This resolution has been repealed by this vote.

Time Line

Proposal and amendment	Tuesday, 15^th November, 2005	Friday, 18^th November, 2005
Discussion Period:	Friday, 18^th November, 23:59:59 UTC, 2005	Saturday, 17^th December, 23:59:59 UTC, 2005
Voting Period	Sunday, 18^th December, 00:00:01 UTC, 2005	Saturday, 31^st December, 23:59:59 UTC, 2005

Seconds

Anibal Monsalve Salazar [anibal@debian.org]
Kalle Kivimaa [killer@debian.org]
Wouter Verhelst [wouter@debian.org]
Daniel Ruoso [ruoso@debian.org]
Kurt Roeckx [kroeckx@debian.org]
Don Armstrong [don@debian.org]

Text

The actual text of the GR is:

In accordance with principles of openness and transparency, Debian will seek to declassify and publish posts of historical or ongoing significance made to the Debian Private Mailing List.

This process will be undertaken under the following constraints:

The Debian Project Leader will delegate one or more volunteers to form the debian-private declassification team.
The team will automatically declassify and publish posts made to that list that are three or more years old, with the following exceptions:
- the author and other individuals quoted in messages being reviewed will be contacted, and allowed between four and eight weeks to comment;
- posts that reveal financial information about individuals or organizations other than Debian, will have that information removed;
- requests by the author of a post for that post not to be published will be honored;
- posts of no historical or other relevance, such as vacation announcements, or posts that have no content after personal information is removed, will not be published, unless the author requests they be published;
- comments by others who would be affected by the publication of the post will also be taken into account by the declassification team;
- the list of posts to be declassified will be made available to developers two weeks before publication, so that the decisions of the team may be overruled by the developer body by General Resolution, if necessary — in the event such a resolution is introduced (i.e., proposed and sponsored), the declassification and publication of messages specified by the resolution will be deferred until the resolution has been voted on.

Amendment Seconds

Gregory T. Norris [adric@debian.org]
John Lightsey [lightsey@debian.org]
Kalle Kivimaa [killer@debian.org]
David Moreno Garza [damog@debian.org]
Neil McGovern [neilm@debian.org]

Amendment Text

The actual text of the amendment is:

Propose that the Debian project resolve that the process defined in the Proposal will be applied only for the future content of debian-private mailing list.

Quorum

With 967 developers, we have:

 Current Developer Count = 967
 Q ( sqrt(#devel) / 2 ) = 15.5483118054662
 K min(5, Q )           = 5
 Quorum  (3 x Q )       = 46.6449354163986

Option 1 Reached quorum: 146> 46.6449354163986
Option 2 Reached quorum: 188> 46.6449354163986

For this GR, as always, statistics have been gathered about ballots received and acknowledgements sent periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the list of voters is available. Also, the tally sheet may also be viewed (Note that while the vote is in progress it is a dummy tally sheet).

Majority Requirement

This proposal, along with the amendments, has a simple majority requirement.

Option 1 passes Majority.               1.021 (146/143)> 1
Option 2 passes Majority.               1.825 (188/103)> 1

Outcome

The winner is: Option 2 Establish declassification procedure for future posts only

In the graph above, any pink colored nodes imply that the option did not pass majority, the Blue is the winner. The Octagon is used for the options that did not beat the default. In the following table, tally[row x][col y] represents the votes that option x received over option y. A more detailed explanation of the beat matrix may help in understanding the table. For understanding the Condorcet method, the Wikipedia entry is fairly informative.

The Beat Matrix
	Option 1	Option 2	Further Discussion
Option 1		108	146
Option 2	150		188
Further Discussion	143	103

Manoj Srivastava