[eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Fairness

["Ed Burnette" <Ed.Burnette@xxxxxxx>]

Of course, we aren't using the community votes to completely drive the decision making process, but like you say, as one of many decision inputs. But look at this: We approved 5 of the top 9 vote getters, or 55%. Overall, we approved of 106 of 384 submissions, or 28%. So it appears the community votes had an effect. If those top 9 vote getters were fairly voted upon like the other submissions then it stands to reason they wouldn't have been approved at such a high percentage. Unfair voting dilutes the input that the voters who were playing by the rules were trying to give us.

If nothing else we should document this so next year's PC can address the issue better. Also I think we should ask the webmaster to remove all the questionable votes so we can get a little better idea of community interest for the remaining items that need to be approved.

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> Possible vote rigging
>
>
> IMHO my general feeling is that you guys are taking these
> votes waaaayyyyy
> too seriously.
>
> The idea is that this program is being run as an open source
> project. You
> are the committers. That means you make the decisions. The
> votes are an
> interesting data point, but I really hope that you're not
> just using the
> voting mechanism to drive the decision making process. As one of many
> decision inputs --- great. As *the* decision criteria --- bad.
>