Debian Project Leader Elections 2004

Elections 2004

Time Line

Nomination period: February 7th 00:00:01 UTC, 2004 February 28th 00:00:00 UTC, 2004
Campaigning period: February 28th 00:00:01 UTC, 2004 March 20th 00:00:00 UTC, 2004
Voting period: March 20th, 00:00:01 UTC, 2004 April 11th, 00:00:00 UTC, 2004

Please note that the new term for the project leader shall start on April 17th, 2004.

Nominations

  1. Martin Michlmayr [[email protected]] [platform]
  2. Gergely Nagy [[email protected]] [platform]
  3. Branden Robinson [[email protected]] [platform]

The ballot can be received through email by emailing [email protected] with the subject leader2004.

Data and Statistics

Some statistics are being gathered about ballots and acknowledgements periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the list of people who have voted is available. The tally sheet is also present.

Quorum

With 911 developers, we have: 

 Current Developer Count = 911
 Q ( sqrt(#devel) / 2 ) = 15.0913882727866
 K min(5, Q )           = 5
 Quorum  (3 x Q )       = 45.2741648183597


Option 1 Reached quorum: 144> 45.2741648183597
Option 2 Reached quorum: 394> 45.2741648183597
Option 3 Reached quorum: 442> 45.2741648183597

Majority Requirement

All three of these proposals require a simple majority. 

Dropping Option 1 because of Majority.  0.558 (144/258) <= 1
Option 2 passes Majority.               5.629 (394/70)> 1
Option 3 passes Majority.              17.000 (442/26)> 1

Outcome

The winner of the election is Martin Michlmayr

I would like to thank Branden Robinson and Gergely Nagy for their service to the project, for standing for the post of project leader, and for offering the developers a strong and viable group of candidates.

Graphical rendering of the results

Total unique votes cast: 482, which is 52.908891% of all possible votes.

In the following table, tally[row x][col y] represents the votes that option x received over option y.

Option
  1 2 3 4
Option 1   55 29 144
Option 2 385   182 394
Option 3 438 287   442
Option 4 258 70 26  


Looking at row 2, column 1, Branden Robinson received 385 votes over Gergely Nagy.
Looking at row 1, column 2, Gergely Nagy received 55 votes over Branden Robinson.


Option 2 defeats Option 1 by ( 385 - 55) = 330 votes.
Option 3 defeats Option 1 by ( 438 - 29) = 409 votes.
Option 4 defeats Option 1 by ( 258 - 144) = 114 votes.
Option 3 defeats Option 2 by ( 287 - 182) = 105 votes.
Option 2 defeats Option 4 by ( 394 - 70) = 324 votes.
Option 3 defeats Option 4 by ( 442 - 26) = 416 votes.