[ogb-discuss] Re-bootstrapping contributors

[Casper.Dik at sun.com]

>Those remaining people, who didn't participate in elections, certainly 
>did not have any impact on the outcome of said elections (except perhaps 
>to lower the margin by which the constitution passed... but it did pass, 
>so that's good enough for me.)

Right.

>So, why not ask the remaining individuals to _confirm_ their status as 
>Core Contributors.  Lack of a reply, or a reply in the negative, would 
>effectively serve as voluntarily declining to participate.  (This allows 
>for the folks who did not vote out of some kind of protest against the 
>process, or due to other reasons, to still be part of the process... 
>although it does have the bad side effect of those individuals losing 
>their anonymity, to at least whoever sends out the mail messages.)

I think it is wrong because the constitution does not allow for it.

The only thing we can do is to ask people who believe that they
should not be on the list to step forward so they can be removed
by their own volition.

Even those who did not vote may have had different reasons: not wanting
to be involved in elections, not being able to submit a ssh key and
connect with ssh, etc..

>So, can we get the list of folks who didn't vote?  Is this idea even 
>"technically" feasible?  (I guess that lack of a registered ssh key 
>would be a good indicator.)

Even if it is technically feasible, this somehow runs afoul of the
promise of an anonymous election, IMHO.   (Clearly we needed to
register who voted to prevent votes to be recast)

Casper