[aur-general] Voting period - Rules governing packages entering [community]

[Loui Chang]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:53:17PM -0500, Aaron Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > Allan McRae wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi TUs,
> >>
> >> This starts the seven day voting period for the proposed rules for
> >> packages entering the [community] repo.  Voting is being done on the AUR
> >> interface, last 7 days and will require a quorum of 75%.
> >>
> >
> > The voting period has now ended.  30 TUs voted and as far as I can tell that
> > is everyone so quorum was met.
> >
> > Results:  21 Yes, 8 No, 1 Abstain
> 
> Unless my math is incorrect, 21/30 = 0.7 which is less than 0.75. Did
> this change to not need a quorum of 75% as was stated in the previous
> emails?

Quorum means a minumum number of members voting for the vote to be
valid. Only a simple majority is needed after that. The Quorum in this
case was 100%.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum for further explanation.

This vote passed quite handily. At 72% approval a strong message is
being conveyed.