[FFmpeg-devel] [ANNOUNCE] upcoming vote: TC/CC elections

[James Almer]

On 11/28/2023 9:34 AM, Anton Khirnov wrote:
> Quoting Ronald S. Bultje (2023-11-28 13:19:00)
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 28, 2023 at 6:58 AM Anton Khirnov <anton at khirnov.net> wrote:
>>
>>> There are reports from people on IRC that they got confused by the
>>> change and voted the reverse of what they meant. Sadly there is no way
>>> to change your vote after it's been case, so if there is a nontrivial
>>> number of such people, we may want to redo the vote.
>>>
>>
>> Serious suggestion: maybe the vote invitation email (or something similar)
>> should explain in more detail how the voting is to be done if it is
>> non-trivial?
> 
> 1) I did not expect that picking proportional representation would
>     change the UI so dramatically. And since I did not know what it would
>     look like, I could hardly describe it in detail.
> 2) The UI in general could be improved, to put it mildly. Even for
>     "normal" votes there is the potential point of confusion that more
>     preferred candidates are higher visually, but have a lower numerical
>     rank. So a statements like "X ranks higher than Y" could potentially
>     be interpreted either way.
> 3) People generally dislike parsing long detailed explanations. Making
>     the text longer could cause more voters to misinterpret it, or not
>     bother reading it at all.
> 
> So while I'm all for improving descriptions, it's not all that easy to
> do. Patches welcome.

Unlike in the previous vote, this one had you write a number. That alone 
made me double check, and it indeed gives you an explanation of how 
weight value works.