Debian Project Leader Elections 2016

Nomination period: Sunday, March 6th 00:00:00 UTC, 2016 Saturday, March 12th 23:59:59 UTC, 2016 Campaigning period: Sunday, March 13th 00:00:00 UTC, 2016 Saturday, April 2nd 23:59:59 UTC, 2016 Voting period: Sunday, April 3rd, 00:00:00 UTC, 2016 Saturday, April 16th, 23:59:59 UTC, 2016

Please note that the new term for the project leader shall start on April 17th, 2016.

The ballot, when ready, can be requested through email by sending a signed email to ballot@vote.debian.org with the subject leader2016.

This year, like always, statistics will be gathered about ballots received and acknowledgements sent periodically during the voting period. Additionally, the list of voters will be recorded. Additionally, the list of voters will be recorded. Also, the tally sheet will also be made available to be viewed. Please remember that the project leader election has a secret ballot, so the tally sheet will not contain the voter's name but a HMAC that allows the voters to check that their vote is in the list of votes. There is a key generated for each voter that is send along with the ack for the vote.

With the current list of voting developers, we have:

Current Developer Count = 1023 Q ( sqrt(#devel) / 2 ) = 15.9921855917195 K min(5, Q ) = 5 Quorum (3 x Q ) = 47.9765567751584

Quorum

Option1 Reached quorum: 265 > 47.9765567751584

The candidate needs a simple majority to be eligible.

Majority

Option1 passes Majority. 20.385 (265/13) >= 1

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.

Option 1 "Mehdi Dogguy"

Option 2 "None Of The Above"

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 2 Option 1 265 Option 2 13

Looking at row 2, column 1, None Of The Above

received 13 votes over Mehdi Dogguy



Looking at row 1, column 2, Mehdi Dogguy

received 265 votes over None Of The Above.



Pair-wise defeats

Option 1 defeats Option 2 by ( 265 - 13) = 252 votes.

The Schwartz Set contains

Option 1 "Mehdi Dogguy"

The winners

Option 1 "Mehdi Dogguy"