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Inexperienced jurors distribution #31

Closed yurloc closed 9 years ago

yurloc commented 10 years ago

There is a requirement for jurors who have never voted before to act as non-voting members to gain their first experience. Only after that they will be assigned as regular jurors.

From the scheduling point of view this means that inexperienced jurors have -1 rounds available for being voting jury members. To avoid having this negative impact on overall jury capacity it has been proposed to allow for a variable jury capacity: typically N-1 in the first round, where the majority of inexperienced jurors are supposed to gain experience, and N in all subsequent rounds.

This requires:

yurloc commented 9 years ago

Just for the record, inexperienced jurors are scheduled correctly since 33c430d003b03d8a078da89a38cca637ac8ba768.

With the variable jury sizes (per round) that have been added recently, it is possible for example to set smaller jury size in round 1 so that juries can be filled without using inexperienced jurors and, at the same time, have bigger jury size in later rounds where inexperienced jurors can be utilized because they took part in round 1 (as non-voting).