Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-07 Thread James McCoy
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 05:32:29PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation > script"): > > Paul Wise writes ("Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation > > script"): > > &g

Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script"): > Paul Wise writes ("Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation > script"): > > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > It

Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script"): > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > It would like to live in some Debian package. > > devscripts seems like the ideal package. I guess some folks would want >

Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-04 Thread Ian Jackson
Paul Wise writes ("Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script"): > On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > > It would like to live in some Debian package. > > devscripts seems like the ideal package. I guess some folks would want >

Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-03 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 11:46 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > It would like to live in some Debian package. devscripts seems like the ideal package. I guess some folks would want to use it for meeting times and team decisions. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-03 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:46:52PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > And my final question: what should it be called ? I'm terrible at > names. debian-standard-resolution-vote-counter condorcet-schultze-vote-counter This doesn't seem like something that needs a short name. If you insist on short, howe

Re: Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-03 Thread Carl Worth
Ian Jackson writes: > And my final question: what should it be called ? I'm terrible at > names. I don't think there are many processes in computer programming as challenging, frustrating, valuable, and rewarding as inventing names. My one suggestion is "strop". Rationale: * It's a weak acr

Wanted: perl package home for condorcet computation script

2014-02-03 Thread Ian Jackson
After getting frustrated with devotee I wrote my own implementation of the Constitution's Standard Resolution Procedure Vote Counting (ie Appendix A.6 of the constitution). Having two implementations is actually probably a good thing anyway. Currently it's here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.u