Re: Financial allocation poll stage 3

Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab-S0/[email protected]> Wed, 03 Aug 2016 23:17:12 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
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Ian Clarke writes:

> One example that sticks out is this justification for saying a website redesign
> would have absolutely zero value: "We have just redesigned it. Throwing that
> away too soon would disappoint the volunteer authors". I find this rationale
> infuriating.

You ask for the value people assess for features. I think you have to
live with honest answers, though you don’t need to agree with them.


There is no way to use this poll as a basis for any "rational" decision,
but that was clear before we started. At best it provides a picture of
the range of opinions in the project.


The only way I see to get a semi-rational from this would be some kind
of Condorcet voting using the Schulze method to resolve ties¹:

1. Use the average cost estimate for each item from the next step to
weight the items in each voting separately (i.e. xor value item 1 *
average cost estimate, …).

2. Then use those values to calculate an order for the items in each
vote by ROI: highest return of investment first (i.e. xor ordering: 5,
3, 22, ...)

3. And finally do condorcet voting¹ to get an estimate which item should
be the first for which we should check whether we find someone who would
take part of the funding to complete it.


Doing it separately for users and developers would at least provide an
interesting metric of the differences between both groups.

Add some normalization and this is the best option I see. It has tons of
flaws, however (I won’t start to describe them, they should be pretty
obvious) and is not suitable to really take decisions based on it. In
short: It is a horrible system, but all others (I can think of at the
moment) are much worse. Except for just using this as a non-binding
picture of the range of opinions and then actually taking decisions.


Best wishes,
Arne

¹: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method — more exactly: the
   Schulze method:
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_method#Schulze_method
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