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 <mar...@rectangular.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 7:28 AM, Suresh Marru <sma...@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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org >
