Re: Web voting

[Greg Stein <gs...@gmail.com>]

We already have a web interface to the voting (h/t Joe), but I bet
there is quite a bit more to what you're asking. We're pretty low on
dev time :-/ ...

Volunteers are certainly welcome! We've got some ideas in motion, but
can certainly use help.

Thx,
-g

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Suresh Marru <sm...@apache.org> wrote:
>
>> We don't need to worry for this vote, but in general relying on voter's
>> statement is not a good idea. An authoritative resource to verify the
>> binding and non-binding votes is [1].
>
>> [1] - http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#incubator-pmc
>
> I agree, but what a pain in the neck.
>
> Instead of running votes manually on our mailing lists, I wish that we ran
> them in a web application.
>
> *   Votes could be tied to LDAP in order to differentiate binding from
>     non-binding.
> *   Improved mailing list signal-to-noise ratio.
> *   No more confusion as to what is DISCUSS and what is VOTE on a vote
>     thread -- all email replies would be discussion.
> *   Automatic generation of both the email starting the vote and the email
>     announcing the vote result, reducing administrative overhead.  No more
>     tedious and error-prone manual tallying and validation!
> *   Vote results could be stored permanently in some kind of database, making
>     apps like Brane's "Incubator Voting Status" more reliable and easier to
>     maintain.  (<http://people.apache.org/~brane/incubator/votes.html>)
>
> The Incubator runs a lot of votes.  If code can be provided, I think it's
> reasonable to petition for Infra resources to maintain a voting service.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Ideally, Apache Steve would power a web voting app.  How close is it to
> providing the features we would need?
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
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