From: Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Tech Board Discuss
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Kernel Summit Discussions
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] Linux Foundation Technical Advisory Board election results 2017
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:00:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA93jw5rwU+qR4yAM9rZEtPTygOi0xceiqgcTz3Yoe8H6e-OUg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcabec8a-ed6c-bfb0-d601-1913f1e6ec8d@zytor.com>
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 5:23 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 10/26/17 00:14, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
>>
>>> It was a very close election, with the next candidate on the list
>>> receiving 36 votes.
>>
>> Do we have a procedure in place in case the tie that we only avoided by one
>> vote would have happened ?
>>
>
> In that case thw winner(s) would be drawn randomly. The scanning tool
> scripts actually assigns each candidate a tiebreaker number via
> /dev/urandom, but we have not yet decided if we would do that or, for
> example, a physical coin toss.
Once upon a time, Heinlein, it was, I think, suggested that a
candidate for office be
picked entirely randomly from the pool. The lottery concept - the idea
that if you ran,
you had a small chance of serving no matter the popular vote - encouraged
participation.
>
> We have had ties in the past, and had one this time too, but none that
> has ever crossed the cut line.
>
> -hpa
>
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-25 16:47 [Ksummit-discuss] " H. Peter Anvin
2017-10-25 22:14 ` Laurent Pinchart
2017-10-26 0:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2017-10-26 2:00 ` Dave Taht [this message]
2017-10-26 7:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2017-10-26 11:11 ` [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] " Steven Rostedt
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