Rule changes / Voting issues

[Robert Marko]

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 at 21:43, Felix Fietkau <nbd at nbd.name> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I took a look at various proposals regarding voting rules changes, and
> here's my take on this subject:
>
> I think RichB's rework of the rules [1] from is a good starting point.
> The quorum of 1/3 of active members seems like a step in the right
> direction as well.
>
> However, I do think that we can make it more future proof by using
> Baptiste Jonglez's suggested quorum of 3/2 * sqrt(N), which is based on
> parts of Debian's voting system. By not increasing the quorum linearly
> with more members, we can avoid some scaling issues here.
>
> My proposed modified text based on RichB's draft would be:
>
> * For a simple approval, the proposal must achieve a two-thirds majority
>    among the active members who participate in the vote.
>    Additionally, the number of approving members must be at least
>    3/2 * sqrt(N), with N = the total number of active members,
>    regardless of whether they participated in the vote.
>
> Maybe we could even make it even easier to reach quorum by having a
> separate "voting member" status, which is opt-in for all members.
> We could allow members without that status to participate in any vote,
> but in cases where they don't, we would just not consider them for the
> sake of reaching quorum.
>
> That way, having more members who don't care about most voting issues
> and contribute only infrequently will not make it harder to have
> successful votes.
>
> Aside from voting on rule changes soon, we should also try to contact
> some inactive members as soon as possible. If for any reason we fail to
> reach quorum on voting for the rule change, we might have a better
> chance in 3 months after a response timeout.

I am in favor of this, and ideally, we should start moving on it.

Regards,
Robert
>
> - Felix
>
> [1]: https://github.com/richb-hanover/OpenWrtRules
>
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