Hi folks, I know we're quite a way from actual election time, but I think it might be worth having us try some mock elections at some point soon, so make sure the new pysteve system is up to the task and possibly identify any nits in the system that we can fix.
As I wrote earlier this year, we have a new machine for conducting votes on, located at https://vote-wip.apache.org/ - the admin interface for this (for setting up elections etc) is at https://vote-wip.apache.org/admin/ and uses the regular ASF LDAP creds for login. Currently, Jim and I have administrative rights there and some CouchDB people have access to set up elections. If you're on the STeVe PMC and you'd like to give tinkering with the system a try, please speak up so Jim or I can add you as an admin in the system. What I'd really like for us to do is make some mock elections of various types (STV, yes/no/abstain) and invite some people to try out the test election, so we can make sure that: 1) Things in general work 2) Setup is something multiple people can figure out 3) The UI is intuitive 4) Vote tallying works as intended 5) Vote monitoring works as intended So, let's start by gathering a bunch of people interested in configuring and monitoring an election (with multiple issues to vote on), and then let's get some folks to volunteer as voters. WDYT? With regards, Daniel.
