[Linux-aus] Name change election results..

[Christopher Yeoh]

On 03/01/2013, at 5:39 PM, John Ferlito <johnf at inodes.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:39:05PM +1100, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
>> In the interest of fairness, I would therefore suggest to go forward with
>> the second round of voting on a "new name" in which the top three (or maybe
>> four) names) are set as choice, which includes "LA". This will then give a
>> much fairer statement of whether the community actually does want to keep
>> the old name.
>> 
>> Otherwise we will always have the question hanging around about "what if
>> the voting process had been different...".
> 
> Since we are in the middle of an election I wonder if this is best
> left to the newly elected council to make a decision on.
> 
> I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of +1's -1's on this to help the
> council decide where the community stands.
> 
> So, should the current council hold another Member DB election with new
> questions something along the lines of.
> 
> 1. Do you thing LA should change it's name Yes/No
> 2. Please rank the following names

If step 2 includes LA as a choice  then isn't this essentially the election that we just had? With preferential voting it shouldn't matter whether people had 4 or 100 names to choose from if the most popular one was on the initial list. Or am I misunderstanding how it worked?

Chris