From: [...] Masashi UMEZAWA I also think the proposed system is good in a short-term basis, but it would be harder to maintain the voters' list if votings occur many times.
I agree entirely. The reason I'm suggesting a system that is as easy as possible to develop (in the simplest case, we write no code) is that we're bootstrapping here:
- We don't know whether the voting system we have chosen (Condorcet) is appropriate;
- We don't know whether the construction of our set of voters is appropriate;
- We don't know whether the nomination system for our candidates is appropriate;
- We don't know whether a system that is appropriate for electing guides is also appropriate for making other community decisions;
- We don't know whether anyone will actually vote.
Until we have some indications on a few of these points, it seems to be a risk to spend scarce development time coding mechanisms that may be replaced after this election.
Ideally, voters' list should be automatically created, importing SqP, Squeak-Ja, and other community lists.
Assuming we continue with that mechanism for constructing our set of voters, I agree with you. However, I'm not yet sufficiently convinced we'll keep the mechanism to want to invest the time in doing this.
- Peter