Agoric governance: votecounter for Instant-runoff Voting Bounty

[cboydstun]

Description

Create an Agoric governance component using a VoteCounter that correctly evaluates election results for instant-runoff voting.

Context

The only vote counter currently is the BinaryVoteCounter, which presumes there are two positions on the ballot and assigns every vote to one or the other or to 'spoiled'. At the end, it looks for a majority winner and announces that. It can be configured to have one of the possible outcomes as the default outcome. If there's a tie and no default, the winner is undefined.

ContractGovernance uses this to make 'no change' be the default when voting on parameter changes.

Acceptance Criteria

A successful bounty will:

• Complete the requirements from the description including reasonable edge cases not explicitly defined
• Pass code review from Agoric team
• Include documented open source code and walkthrough presentation

Time Estimation

One Week

Reward

$3,200

Payment will be made in USD (fiat currency) via wire transfer. The developer is responsible for providing their completed tax documents (W9 for US based developers and/or W8 or W8-BEN-E for non-US based developers) and providing their banking details in order to receive payment.

Applicant Assessment Criteria

Important: Please provide a clear work plan for how you will approach this bounty. Use the work plan as an initial demonstration that you would be a good candidate. Bounties will require coordination with the Agoric team, so unfortunately only plans submitted in English will be considered.

Applicants will be assessed based on the following criteria:

• Issue-specific domain experience
• Issue-specific technical capability
• Familiarity with Agoric's platform
• JavaScript experience
• Availability and communication

Experience Write-up (1000-1500 words)

As part of completing the bounty, we ask that you write up a short (or long!) summary of your experience building on Agoric. Write-up should:

• Begin with a compelling, relevant introductory hook statement (<50 words).
• Clearly explain the specific bounty project (~100 words).
• Describe how the developer approached the problem (~300 words).
• Give a step-by-step description of the solution (>500 words && <1000 words).
• At least three code snippets per write-up. They do not count toward overall word count.
• Conclude with clear calls to action on developing with Agoric - specifically how any ambition developer reading this piece could do more themselves (>150 words).

This is important feedback for us as we evolve the platform.

Review Process

• Agoric team reviews your submitted work plan on Gitcoin
• It is best to join our Discord and post your gitcoin name in the bounties channel, so that we can follow up with you. Otherwise, we will write on your gitcoin profile wall and say hello!
• Agoric contacts you to provide reference projects / sample code for engineering review
• Introductory call to discuss your plans and expected timeline
• You join the Agoric Discord bounties channel (if you haven’t done so already)
• Agoric accepts you on Gitcoin and you get started!

References

• Agoric Documentation
• Agoric Governance Doc
• #bounties channel in Discord for general questions and your private bounty channel for direct questions to the Agoric team

[gitcoinbot]

Issue Status: 1. Open 2. Started 3. Submitted 4. Done

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Workers have applied to start work.

These users each claimed they can complete the work by 264 years from now. Please review their action plans below:

1) bshevchenko has applied to start work _(Funders only: approve worker | reject worker)_.

I am available to work on this now. Let’s have a chat? 2) iotaaxel has applied to start work _(Funders only: approve worker | reject worker)_.

I've read the description and am crafting a basic roadmap that includes a testing / benchmarking phase.

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