[detaro]

Two common and tested-in-practice voting systems: one to select members of a group, one to decide between multiple options inside that group (which isn't the same problem, so it makes sense to vote differently). One committee to replace what before was a BDFL who resigned and thus needs to be replaced, ideally in a way that doesn't make discussions worse than they are (so transparency and clearly defined rules for edge cases are important. A BDFL can afford to be somewhat intransparent and inconsistent, an elected group can not)

[ghaff]

Exactly. As someone who is on the board and used to be the chair of a non-profit, rules and procedures tend not to matter much. Until they do. You hit some edge case where people seriously disagree and things like voting rights, proxies, the process for bringing an issue to a vote, etc. suddenly matter if you don't want to just leave decisions in the hands of whoever has the loudest voice and/or feels most entitled to having the final say.